Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Download or read book Hiroshima and Nagasaki written by Angie Peterson Kaelberer and published by Raintree. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hoping to finally end World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945. Three days later, the US dropped another massive bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. The result was total devastation. Within seconds of the blasts, more than 120,000 men, women and children died. Thousands more would die from radiation sickness in the months to come. The war was over but the ongoing fear of nuclear destruction had begun.