I'm not an expert, I'm just telling you what -I- read to counter what -you- read. 8^P The Hiroshima bomb flattened that entire city. I read that there was some miscalculation, that the bomb was much more powerful than the experts expected.
They did NOT expect the bomb to boost tons of radioactive dust high into the stratosphere to rain down for decades afterwards, hundreds and thousands of miles away. They didn't understand the fallout problem at the time. They thought lots of people would die from the blast, others from radiation, but that would be it.
Nagasaki was different. Nagasaki is two valleys that form a 'V' coming down to the coast. Apparently the bomb was dropped in the wrong place and most of the blast was in one valley.
The whole idea of a 'dirty bomb' is based on what we learned about radiation after all the tests we did in the 50s. Even so, Hiroshima and Nagasaki didn't have to be abandoned for thousands of years because of lingering radioactivity. In a few years they were bustling cities again.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.