Comparing The Bombing Of Hiroshima And The Disaster Of Fukushima

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The bombing of Hiroshima and the disaster of Fukushima where very tragic moments that changed history and shocked the world. Both events were triggered differently, had large nuclear explosions and deaths and have an impact on Japan’s (Canada’s) future in nuclear technology. In the bombing of Hiroshima, atomic bomb named,’Little Boy” was man made and dropped on Japan through warfare. Disaster of Fukushima was a huge accident caused by natural disasters that resulted in a nuclear plant melt down. A tsunami and earthquake disabled the cooling generators for the power plants in Fukushima resulting in them to overheat and eventually meltdown. During the drop of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima 90,000+ people died, 15,000 tons of tnt exploded from the