History

The Second Bomb

Question for the room...

There's been an ongoing debate for the last 55 years about whether or not we should have dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima. But on this day in 1945, we dropped a second bomb -- this time a plutonium-based weapon -- on Nagasaki without giving the Japanese time to consider a surrender following the Hiroshima bomb.

Should we have dropped the Hiroshima bomb?

Should we have dropped the Hiroshima bomb and the Nagasaki bomb?