Atomic Bombing of World War II

On August 6, 1945, at approximately 3 A.M., a bomb was dropped that had more power than the world had ever seen before. The effects of this bomb were terrible. The radiation in the cities still causes problems today. Many people ask the question, 'should we have dropped the atomic bomb?'
When the United States was making the atomic bomb it named the operation the Manhattan Project because much of the early research was done in New York City. The program was organized when the Germans discovered nuclear fission in 1938. The American scientists feared that the Germans would discove…