Bombing Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki
During the Second World War the battle for the power of other countries was hard, because some countries got allies and they help the affected or when the allied country is under attack and one of the most affected country was japan, japan’s story was one of the most catastrophic because japan was bombed two times by american soldiers with two atomic bombs that destroy most parts of japan.
Bombing of Hiroshima And Nagasaki
On August 6, 1945 during the World War an american bomber dropped the first atomic bomb on the japanese city of hiroshima. The explosion destroy 90% of the city and immediately the bomb kill more 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure that the human body does not support. Some days later, another bomber was flying over another city on japan in this case was Nagasaki and the plane was charged with another A-Bomb on Nagasaki this bomb kill an estimated of 40,000 innocent people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s surrender of the World War on a radio address in August 15, 1939.
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After arriving at the U.S. base on the pacific island of Tinian, the TNT was loaded aboard on a modified B-29 plane, the bomber Christened Enola Gay .The plane dropped the bomb known as “Little Boy” by parachute at 8:15 in the morning, and it exploded 2,000 feet above hiroshima in a blast equal to 12,000-15,000 tons of TNT, destroying five squares miles of the city. Hiroshima’s devastation failed to elicit immediate japanese surrender.
The topography of Nagasaki, which was nestled in narrow valleys between mountain, reduced the bomb’s effect, limiting the destruction to 2.6 square miles on