Hiroshima+and+Nagasaki

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Happened in august 6, 1945 nuclear weapon "little boy"on hiroshima, "Fat man" nucear bomb on august 9 1945 on Nagasaki The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks during World War 2 against the Empire of Japan by the United States under US President Harry S. Truman.



DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE ATOMIC BOMB EXPLOSION

Completely Burned
 * Levelled Area...................6.7 million square meters
 * Damaged Houses:

11,574 Completely Destroyed

1,326 Badly Damaged

5,509 Total

18,409 Killed
 * Casualties

73,884 Injured

74,909 Total

148,793

Bombing of Nagasaki.

Description: "A dense column of smoke rises more than 60,000 feet into the air over the Japanese port of Nagasaki, the result of an atomic bomb, the second ever used in warfare, dropped on the industrial center August 8, 1945, from the US B-29 Superfortress." Keywords: World War II Credit: National Archives and Records Administration

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60 years ago, on August 9th, 1945, the second of the only two atomic bombs (a plutonium bomb) ever used as instruments of aggressive war (against essentially defenseless civilian populations) was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, by an all-Christian bomb crew. The well-trained American soldiers were only "doing their job," and they did it efficiently.



They attacked Hiroshima first on August 6, 1945 and then Nagasaki 3 days later on August 9, 1945.

these attacks were the only nuclear weapons used in warfare. source

as many as 140,000 people in hiroshima and 80,000 in nagasaki may have died from the bombings by the end of 1945

the plane that bombed hiroshima was a B-29 bomber called the Enola Gay and it took off at 2:25 a.m. from Tinian.

"little boy" was created using uranium-235, a radioactive isotope of uranium

The allied powers (U.S and U.K) were the ones that dropped the bombs

It says that the bombing brought WWII to an end Source

On august 15 1945 Japan anounced its surrender to the allied powers sgning an instrument of surrender on september 2 which officially ended world war 1

bombing led post-war Japan to adopt Three Non-Nuclear Principles, which didnt let Japan from nuclear armament

Hiroshima was a target cause it had remained largely untouched by bombing raids, and the bomb's effects could be measured.

Sources:

2) http://www.hiroshima-remembered.com/history/hiroshima/page4.html

3)http://history1900s.about.com/od/worldwarii/a/hiroshima.htm