Dropping of the atomic bombIt is August 6, 1945. The location is Tinian, an island in the South Pacific. At 2:45 the silence of the evening is abruptly interrupted by the roar of a B-29 bomber as it roars down the runway and disappears into the night. Special bombing mission no. 13 is underway. A single B-29, nicknamed EnolaGay, embarks on a mission that will change the course of history. EnolaGay will launch the first atomic bomb in history. It was a Monday morning in Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. Families were having breakfast, children were getting ready for school, and work in the factories was about to begin. The distant thump of an airplane engine caused little concern in the city. Japanese children had become accustomed to daily flying in weather and observation planes. At exactly 8:16 am, what had been a peaceful Monday morning suddenly turned into a nightmare of death and destruction. Over 100,000 Japanese died from the atomic bomb. This cold statement of fact has little real meaning until it is expressed in the words of school children who survived the atomic bomb. Children who may never see their parents or be able to enjoy their childhood because they will spend the next two years in hospitals recovering from third degree burns and when they grow up they will finally realize the harmful effects they have suffered due of the radiation acquired. the explosion. Their children may be born with cancer themselves and die before they are mature enough to enjoy life to the fullest, they may never have children of their own, and they may not even fall in love for the first time. As sad as it may seem, a man is lucky if he survives the horrific explosion. Most of the innocent civilians were hit by an explosion that melted their skin or even killed them instantly. Some jumped into lakes to soothe their burns, not knowing that the water was radioactive and had reached boiling point. Can such a brutal attack be justified and was the atomic bomb the final answer to the problem? These are some of the questions that have not yet been answered and may never be answered. One of the reasons why the bomb was unfair and cruel was that Japan was already defeated before the bombing,