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• 1 media/3c34192v.jpg 2017-11-18T12:03:53-08:00 Was it Necessary? 23 Introduction plain 548421 2017-12-06T22:27:27-08:00 Have you ever imagined the sensation of the biggest, radioactive, dangerous, atomic bomb at the time? In 1945, Europe and Asia were being devastated by the World War II. The United States, as a result of the Pearl Harbor attack in Hawaii, officially declared war on Japan causing massive destruction to the counterpart country and its allies. Realizing the amount of money and soldiers the nation wasted per day, the U.S decided to develop a bomb never created before. With a weapon with the power to kill hundreds of thousands of people, several surrender requests were sent to prevent a massacre. It is important to note that Japan had an imperial system where the power was given to only one person (Emperor Hirohito). The United States, defending equal rights as well as democratic regimes, proceeded with an imminent attack forcing the surrender from them. Andrew Kenny states after sixty years that “There was still dithering and defiance after the first bomb and the American idea was to keep on blowing until the enemy's flame went out.” (Kenny, 2005)
  
  After two Atomic bombs, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese had no option but showing empathy with the people with an unconditional surrender. Still, more than 60,000 people were killed in the city as a result, with a radioactive wave that kept damaging the wellbeing for several years. The Weekend Edition Saturday relates a story of how John Hersey helped people in Hiroshima after the bomb and states that “injured people were too weak to lift themselves. He reached down the boat and took a woman by the hands, but her skin slipped off in huge glove-like pieces.” (Weekend Edition Saturday, 2016) the radiation almost doubled the number of casualties, causing bizarre death causes, including new types of cancer.
  
  In this exhibition, we are going to go over the most famous, cold-blooded images and statements of the Hiroshima bombing on August 6, 1945 and demonstrate the worthiness of the colossal damage and imminent success of the U.S. as a new empire. This includes the prepared speech of President Truman regarding the attack, and a variation of images that shows everything about August 6, 1945.