The first atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Its destruction was enormous, but Japan still did not appear willing to surrender. On the morning of August 6 in America, radio stations played a recorded address by President Truman. He announced the use of the...
6. Hiroshima– In August 1945, US forces dropped an atomic bomb on < a href="https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-guides/japan-travel-tips/hiroshima/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hiroshima. Around 80,000 people (30% of the city’s population) were killed by the blast, ano...
On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States war machine unleashed a secret weapon it had been developing for years when a B-29 bomber called the Enola Gay dropped a single, oddly shaped bomb called Little Boy over Hiroshima, Japan. Little Boy was a 9,700-pound uranium bomb, the first of its ...
Seventy-eight years after the city was nearly bombed out of existence, Hiroshima now has beautiful parks, memorials and museums that exhibit the materials andhuman stories about the bomb. At the time it was predicted thatnothing would growin the city for decades. Understandably ma...
000 people were killed instantly in Hiroshima, with another 90,000 to 140,000 dying from radiation and injuries by the end of the year. Three days later, at least 70,000 people died when Nagasaki was bombed, and 75,000 were injured. Several hundred thousand others would eventually die as...
“The primary cause of death in Hiroshima that day was fire,” says Rhodes. “The bomb ignited a massive fire all over the city instantly that led to a classic firestorm, where this chimney of heat is sucking in air from around the edges and increasing the intensity of the fire. ...