Atomic bombs
At approximately 8:15am on 6 August 1945 a US B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. This bomb instantly killed around 80,000 people. Three days later, another bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, causing the deaths of 40,000 more. The dropping of the bombs, ordered bu US president Harry Truman was the only nuclear attack. Even after the bomb was dropped many more people died and suffered from the radiation from the bombs. This basically was the end of World War II