On Monday, August 6,1945, the American B-29 Enola Gay left its runway carrying a massive weapon that would soon be responsible for killing 80,000 men, women and children in Japan. The destructive force, which wiped out many lives and the entire city of Hiroshima, was the first actual use of a weapon at the time unheard of by the world, the atomic bomb. Many questions must be considered to determine whether the use of atomic power was …showed first 75 words of 1027 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1027 total…S. had waited, but we will never know. The president’s decision for nuclear weapons, when it came, based on two ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Annotated Bibliography Butow, Robert. Japan’s Decision to Surrender. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1954. I will use Butlow to reveal evidence of Japan’s attitude of dying before they will considering surrendering, that gives proof that the bomb was needed. Churchill,Winston S. Memoirs of The Second World War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,1959.