Japan’s Balloon Bombs One of World War 2’s best-kept secrets was that of the Japanese balloon bombs, the first weapon ever deployed with intercontinental range. Lacking a practical means to attack the US mainland during the war, the Japanese constructed 9,000 large hydrogen balloons, attached...
On August 6 and 9, 1945, the United States detonated atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two small cities in Japan. Still the only use of nuclear weapons against a civilian population, this act changed the way warfare is waged and heralded the dawning of the "nuclear age." The Secon...
bombs on Japan was made before FDR died, they would obviously not be needed on Germanythe target selection list was made in a meeting in May 1945 (Truman was not there and made no suggestions)orders were written by the Army to drop the atomic bombs on Japan as quickly as they became ...
The U.S. deployment of atomic weapons in two Japanese cities, Nagasaki and Hiroshima, in August 1945 led to Japan's eventual surrender on Sept. 2, 1945. Those events — or, the atomic bomb in particular — were still fresh in the minds of children that Christmas season, based on the ...
Many in the regions (Lebanese right for example) want to go on with their lives, admit defeat and settle for a mediocre deal and work on building their societies from the grounds up.. for them they want to “live” somewhat a normal life. Germany and Japan accepted defeat they s...