What Was the Bombing of Hiroshima?By: Jess Brallier, Who HQ Illustrator: Tim Foley Series: What Was? Hiroshima is where the first atomic bomb was dropped. Now readers will learn the reasons why and what it's meant for the world ever since. By August 1945, World War II was over in Europe, but the fighting continued between American forces and the Japanese, who were losing but determined to fight till the bitter end. And so it fell to a new president Harry S. Truman to make the fateful