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Aug 9, 2022 · 8.59M subscribers. Subscribed. 793. 88K views 1 year ago #WorldNews. It's been 77 years of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the world witnessed a new weapon of mass...
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May 17, 2023 · 24K. 1.8M views 11 months ago. August 6, 1945, a day that would change history forever and put an end to the tumultuous battle that was World War 2. The day the United States dropped 2 nuclear...
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The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remains one of the most pivotal events in modern history. On August 7, 1945, a day after Hiroshima was obliterat...
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Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (2m 17s) tv-14. In August 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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- The Manhattan Project
- No Surrender For The Japanese
- Why Did The U.S. Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
- Aftermath of The Bombing
Even before the outbreak of war in 1939, a group of American scientists—many of them refugees from fascist regimes in Europe—became concerned with nuclear weapons research being conducted in Nazi Germany. In 1940, the U.S. government began funding its own atomic weapons development program, which came under the joint responsibility of the Office of...
By the time of the Trinity test, the Allied powers had already defeated Germany in Europe. Japan, however, vowed to fight to the bitter end in the Pacific, despite clear indications (as early as 1944) that they had little chance of winning. In fact, between mid-April 1945 (when President Harry Trumantook office) and mid-July, Japanese forces inflic...
Hiroshima, a manufacturing center of some 350,000 people located about 500 miles from Tokyo, was selected as the first target. After arriving at the U.S. base on the Pacific island of Tinian, the more than 9,000-pound uranium-235 bomb was loaded aboard a modified B-29 bomber christened Enola Gay(after the mother of its pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets)....
At noon on August 15, 1945 (Japanese time), Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s surrender in a radio broadcast. The news spread quickly, and “Victory in Japan” or “V-J Day” celebrations broke out across the United States and other Allied nations. The formal surrender agreement was signed on September 2, aboard the U.S. battleship Missouri, anc...
The bomb fell on the narrow Urakami Valley northwest of downtown Nagasaki. It exploded roughly 1,600 feet over Urakami Cathedral at 11:02 a.m. Of the 286,000 people living in Nagasaki at the time of the blast, 74,000 people were killed and another 75,000 sustained severe injuries.
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The bombing of the Japanese city of Nagasaki with the Fat Man plutonium bomb device on August 9, 1945, caused terrible human devastation and helped end World War II.
