Atomic bomb video footage explosion watch live destruction Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects of the atomic bombings.
The United States laid down in the dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945, during the final stage of World War II.
Atomic bomb video footage explosion watch live destruction Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history.
The Allies prepared for anticipated to a very costly invasion of the Japanese mainland.
U.S. firebombing campaign that obliterated many Japanese cities. The war in Europe had concluded when Nazi Germany signed its instrument of surrender on May 8, 1945.
The Japan refused to accept the Allies’ demands for unconditional surrender and the Pacific War continued.
Together with the United Kingdom and China, the United States called for the unconditional surrender of the Japanese armed forces in the Potsdam Declaration on July 26, 1945—the alternative being “prompt and utter destruction”
The Allied Manhattan Project successfully detonated an atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert and by August had produced atomic weapons based on two alternate designs.
On August 6, the U.S. dropped a uranium gun-type atomic bomb (Little Boy) on the city of Hiroshima.
American President Harry S. Truman called for Japan’s surrender 16 hours later, warning them to “expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth.
Three days later, on August 9, the U.S. dropped a plutonium implosion-type bomb (Fat Man) on the city of Nagasaki.
Atomic bomb video footage explosion watch live destruction Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects of the atomic bombings killed 90,000–146,000 people in Hiroshima and 39,000–80,000.
In Nagasaki; roughly half of the deaths in each city occurred on the first day.
During the following months, large numbers died from the effect of burns, radiation sickness, and other injuries, compounded by illness and malnutrition.
In both cities, most of the dead were civilians, although Hiroshima had a sizable military garrison.
On August 15, six days after the bombing of Nagasaki and the Soviet Union’s declaration of war.
Japan announced its surrender to the Allies.
On September 2, it signed the instrument of surrender, effectively ending World War II.
The bombings’ role in Japan’s surrender and their ethical justification are still debated.
