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Jul 7, 1985 · Hiroshima: The Aftermath. Survivors’ stories. By John Hersey. July 7, 1985. Photograph via Smith Collection / Gado / Getty. I. HATSUYO NAKAMURA. In August, 1946, a year after the bombing of...
- Why Was The Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima?
- Life in Hiroshima Before and After The Atomic Bomb Was Dropped
- The Horrifying Aftermath in Hiroshima and The Haunting Pictures That Remain
Hiroshima was an important military base for the Japanese, it was a hub of communications, and it was fortified by anti-aircraft guns. There were also an estimated 40,000 Imperial soldiers stationed there. As far as war strategy was concerned, it was an optimal headquarters to cut off. Also, as it had so far been spared bombing and airstrikes, the ...
It's likely that when those sirens rang out on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, the residents of Hiroshima continued on with their daily routines. Imperial radars had only picked up a small number of planes at high altitude, so they believed no major threat was expected. But one of those planes was the Enola Gay, an American B-29 bomber that had been r...
Because the residents had been given an all-clear after the earlier air-raid warning, many were outside when the bomb detonated. More than 50 percent of the casualties died from burns while many others who did not succumb to the initial blast or the fires in the immediate Hiroshima aftermath later died of radiation exposure. Survivors recalled near...
- Leah Silverman
The aftermath of Hiroshima. Image Credit: Public Domain. As horrific as their immediate impact was, the two atomic bombs detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki were especially devastating because the damage they unleashed was played out over many years.
- Harry Atkins
Jul 6, 2015 · Hiroshima: The Aftermath: Directed by Lucy van Beek. With Benjamin Bederson, Peter Burchett, Winston Churchill, Allen Dulles. A documentary about the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima/Nagasaki and their aftermaths in both Japan and the United States.
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Thousands were dead and injured. A single bomb dropped from a B-29 bomber on the morning of 6 August 1945 had killed a third of Hiroshima’s population and wiped 70% of the city off the face of the earth. Three days later, a second bomb fell on the city of Nagasaki, killing a further 35-40,000 people.
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.
Aug 6, 2020 · The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, 75 years ago — marking the end of World War II. Survivors still live with the consequences.
