User blog:ARTaylor/70 Years of the Hiroshima Atomic Bombing

Today is the seventieth anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the first of only two nuclear weapons used in warfare. It was this day during World War II that the United States of America dropped the first nuclear device, called Little Boy, on the nation of Japan killing an estimated 72,000 to 148,000 people in an instant. The ethics of the bombing are still a controversial subject. Proponents have argued that given the fierceness of the Japanese forces many more would have had to die using standard invasion techniques, while opponents argue that it was a war crime. Either way, it's one of the final factors that eventually ended the war.