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'If you put a bomb like this in the middle of it, you end up destroying almost the entirety of the city.'Īnd the States wanted to show off that power in order to bring a swift end to World War II. 'Hiroshima is compact,' Alex Wellerstein, a historian at the Stevens Institute of Technology told NPR in 2015. As a cosmopolitan hub on flat land, the sheer devastation of the atomic bomb could be witnessed by the world.

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Also, as it had so far been spared bombing and airstrikes, the full effects of the atomic bomb itself could be studied.īut there was another reason the United States targeted Hiroshima in particular. As far as war strategy was concerned, it was an optimal headquarters to cut off. There were also an estimated 40,000 Imperial soldiers stationed there. Hiroshima was an important military base for the Japanese, it was a hub of communications, and it was fortified by anti-aircraft guns. View Gallery Why Was The Atomic Bomb Dropped On Hiroshima?

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