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Tanimoto, K. **(ND).** Was america justified in dropping the atomic bomb on Japan? Retrieved December 1 2010 from [] The dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan ended world war two. President Truman had asked himself if it was justfiable to use a weapon. The answer would change the world.

[|http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/index.htm] Sixty years ago the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.Since the atomic bomb alot has changed. Nuclear age had truly begun with the first military use of atomic weapons.
 * Burr W. (4-27-07). ****The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II.** Retrieved December 1 2010 from

**Groves**, L. (__**ND**__ ). THE ATOMIC BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA Retrieved December 1 2010 from [] The early morning hours of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named **__//Enola Gay//__** took off from the island of Tinian and headed north by northwest toward Japan. The bomber's primary target was the **city of Hiroshima**, located on the deltas of southwestern Honshu Island facing the Inland Sea.

World War 2 data base **(ND). The Atomic Bomb 1945 Retrived December 1 2010 from** [] July 14, 1945, the bomb was detonated in a test in New Mexico. The scientists had no idea of how much explosive power the bomb would have; ideas ran from a dud to setting the atmosphere on fire. Edward Teller, after the war the father of American nuclear doctrine, had the highest guess: 1,000,000 tons of TNT. The bomb had the power of 20,000 tons of TNT.

Admin. 8/1. 65th anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bomb drop. Retrieved December 1 2010 from [] Aug. 6, 1945, during World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. About 140,000 people were killed or died within months when the American B-29 “Enola Gay” bombed Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. Three days later, about 80,000 people died after the United States also bombed Nagasaki.