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__**Atomic Bomb**__
By order of President Harry Truman, the U.S. dropped the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" on the city of Hiroshima on Monday, August 6, 1945, followed by the detonation of "Fat Man" over Nagasaki on August 9. These are the only attacks with nuclear weapons in the history of warfare. The United States felt that by dropping the atomic bomb, it would make it so the Japanese would surrender. As a result, many thousands of Japanese civilian lives were lost and the Japanese did end up surrendering. Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the effects killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki,with roughly half of the deaths in each city occurring on the first day. The Hiroshima health department estimates that, of the people who died on the day of the explosion, 60% died from flash or flame burns, 30% from falling debris and 10% from other causes. During the following months, large numbers died from the effect of burns, radiation sickness, and other injuries, compounded by illness. The dropping of the atomic bomb is still debatable today because of all the pain and death that we caused the Japanese.