US Atomic Bombing of Japan in 1945

I absolutely agree that the US Atomic Bombing of Japan is the #1 news story of the century because it emphasize our world today.

Who knows what would have happened if not for that atomic bomb? Would we have more or less wars? No one knows.

Many were injured by this bombed. Mentally. Physically. Even those who were not there were affected. Women were giving birth to ill-disfunctioned children. People were dying months, years, and days apart from each other because of the after effects of this bomb. This bomb might have set its goal in eliminating the enmey but it also eliminated those who were once innocent.

What we all seem to figure out is that without that atomic bomb our world today would be entirely different. Either for the better or the worse.

Something that I think can compete with this source of the destruction is from my own generation which was the two planes crashing into the Twin Towers. With this a war started. This is opposite to the atomic bombing because with that the war gradually seized to and abrupt end. Still, with thees two extreme situations came extreme consequences and facts.

From the list given I would say to put the atomic bomb testing in New Mexico underneath the US Atomic Bombing of Japan in 1945 because without this first bombing their would probably be no bomb at all without seeing its results first.