America was already trying to create the atomic bomb, but their production was slow, until Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. America wasn’t happy about this and wanted to get Japan to surrender so Franklin D. Roosevelt decided to create the Manhattan Project which was to try and produce the atomic bomb much faster with 30 testing sites and more than 100,000 workers. A test in activating the atomic bomb was a success in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and it was called the Trinity Test. Because they finally succeeded, they went and made a uranium and plutonium bomb called Little Boy and Fat Man. These were both going to be used against Japan if they did not surrender.

America went and told Japan to surrender, and they did not listen. So then America went ahead and dropped Little Boy, the uranium-filled bomb, into a city named Hiroshima. Japan still did not surrender, so America dropped another bomb into another city that was named Nagasaki. The second bomb was the plutonium-filled bomb named Fat man.

Japan finally decided to surrender, at the loss of 2 cities, with the death of more than 200,000 people. There was 40 and 67% of structure damage in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, causing people to become homeless. People who were in a 2 mile radius from the center of the blast got keloid scars from heat rays which burns the skin badly. People who were 0.7 miles away from the blast got their internal organs damaged and would die in a few days. The explosion could cause disorders and illnesses such as cancer. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made these two cities uninhabitable.

What led up to Hiroshima and Nagasaki's destruction was when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. It made America choose to try and get Japan to surrender by creating the Manhattan Project, which successfully created an atomic bomb during the Trinity Test, and then Japan refused to surrender, causing the destruction of both cities.

Because of all the events that led up to this, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed by the two atomic bombs. The cities were not safe to live in anymore and 210,000 people were killed, and it made Japan finally surrender.

I chose this event because I was curious to know about the production of the atomic bomb and to see what it could leave behind in its aftermath.
The event of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were significant because the two atomic bombs destroyed the cities and killed large amounts of people, and it showed how powerful the atomic bomb can be.