Almost half the population of the area on which the bomb was dropped was completely and utterly wiped out. The atomic bomb not only killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people, but also devastated an entire country. Due to the fact that the bomb was dropped on Japan's two industrial cities, Japan entered total economic and traditional decline. Japan's economy was devastated, and because the Americans had to step in and help the Japanese economy rebuild, most American values ​​and traditions were incorporated into Japanese culture. The Americans had good intentions when they decided to use the atomic bomb, they simply wanted to stop the bloodshed and did what they thought was possible