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Question
Why did America drop the atom bomb on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Solution
The USA dropped atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki because:
(i) to take the revenge of the humiliation of the attack on the Pearl Harbour by Japan on December 7, 1941, and
(ii) to liberate the Islands of South West Pacific China, Manchuria and other places from
Japanese control and to end the fighting.
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