An in depth analysis of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.

Was it Necessary? It is the morning of August 6, 1945. On the runway is the Enola Gay, a B-29 bomber, powering up her engines to leave for a mission that would change the world forever. Meanwhile, in Hiroshima, Japan, 2 B-29 bombers were sighted passing over the city by local military watchers. They are passed off as reconnaissance planes, and nothing more. The people continue about their daily lives. It was about 8:11 a.m., when the Enola …

…war. As many as 1,000,000 lives were saved on both sides of the conflict. If the math is done, as many as 22 Japanese soldiers were killed to every one American soldier, as many as 22,000,000 Japanese may have died at the end of the invasion of Kyushu and Honshu. When numbers like these are taken into account, the Nuclear bombs used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were necessary to end the bloodiest war the world had ever seen.