Above is the document that ordered the “Little Boy” to be dropped on Hiroshima. The Enola Gay is the name of the fighter plane that carried the nine thousand pound atomic bomb to Hiroshima.
Below is the newspaper that broadcasted to the rest of the world the destruction the atomic bomb caused. This was only one of the many broadcasts that went out after the bomb had been dropped on Japan.
Below is Harry Truman’s aerial leaflet informing the Japanese that they would be left completely unharmed if they agreed to surrender immediately to the United States. To read more facts on whether or not the United States was justified in dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, go to http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/Lesson_95_Notes.htm
