- President Harry S. Truman ordered for the bombing of Hiroshima and the Atomic Bomb uses was called the "Little Boy".
- The president offered a surrender with Japan on July 26th of 1945 yet Japan disregarded the offer.
- The Atomic Bomb that bombed Nagasaki was called the "Fat Man".
- The Atomic Bomb was said to have had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT.
- "Little Boy" missed the actual target and exploded at 2,000 feet above the center of Hiroshima. The bomb still did extreme damage.
- 2/3 of Hiroshima was ruined and 60,000 of the 90,000 buildings were destroyed. The heat was so intense that metals and stones melted.
- Canada and The U.K assisted the U.S in developing the Atomic Bombs, we knows this as The Manhattan Project which was initially started because of Nazis in Germany.
- Approximately 400,000 American lives were lost in World War II throughout its 3.5 year range.
- The airplane that bombed Hiroshima was The B-29 Enola Gay, and was piloted and commanded by Colonel Paul Tibbets.
- 1% of the people who survied the explosion either became ill or died due to Radiation poisening or necerosis cuased illness. By the end of 1945, thousands more people died due to radiation poisoning, bringing the death count up to approxiamately 90,000 people.
- The final count of deaths was taken in August 6th of 2005 and the final count of deaths was 242,437, and that included every person who had a bomb "Little Boy" bomb related death.
