Weapons of Mass Destruction "Hiroshima grew rapidly as a town and commercial city, and after 1868 it was developed as a military center. On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-1945), the first atomic bomb to be used against an enemy position was dropped on the city by the United States. According to U.S. estimates 60,000 to 70,000 people were killed or missing as a result of the bomb and many more were made homeless. (In 1940 the population …showed first 75 words of 366 total…

…showed last 75 words of 366 total…It was unfair of us to use it on them, they had no way of fighting back. I do not understand why we have such weapons today. We, as a society, know that we have the capabilities to destroy ever living organisms with these weapons of mass destruction, yet we insist on making more and more for our own protection, when in the end they will lead to our demise as a whole. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**