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How Did The Hiroshima Bombing Changed America's Society

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Within minutes, the entire city of Hiroshima is completely obliterated just because of a single bomb on the 6th of August, 1945. “Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence” said Australian journalist, Wilfred Burchett. That alone is devastating enough but this bombing affected more than just that particular city-- it shook the entire globe. This bomb is the most influential bombing in history because of just the fact alone that it had the ability to make individual people “vanish” into thin air, it was the first shot in the Cold War and it changed an entire country’s society. (History.com Staff. "Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki." History.com. A&E Television Networks, 2009. Web. 29 Mar. 2016).
First off, the bomb that dropped over Hiroshima nearly wiped out an entire society. Within just a few short minutes, eighty-thousand people were lifeless. (History.com Staff. "Bombing of …show more content…

The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki could easily be argued the start of the Cold War. At this point, Germany had already been defeated by us-- the United States of America-- and now Japan was out of the picture completely. Now we were against Russia, who also were developing their own nuclear weapons. (Blum, William. "Hiroshima: Last Military Act of World War II or First Act of the Cold War?" Hiroshima: Last Military Act of World War II or First Act of the Cold War? –. Web. 29 Mar. 2016). Since everybody now knows just the damage an atomic bomb can do, nobody dares do anything. However, each nation, theoretically of course, has their finger placed gently on the figurative “A bomb” button, ready to press down at any moment. The bombing of Hiroshima ultimately led to the nations being “frightened” about who was going to drop the bomb first which in turn led to nobody actually atomically bombing the other

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