Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb created on Hiroshima, a city in Japan. Immediately in 80,000 people and wiped out more than 75% of the city. On its trip to drop the bomb, the bomber was accompanied by two other bombers with cameras and other by A second B-29 bomber dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki, another city in Japan, three days later. Emperor Hirohito of Japan announced that his country surrendered from World War II. The reason that Japan surrendered was because of the bombing on Nagasaki and Hiroshima by the United States.