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Aug 8, 2020 · It is 75 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August, leading to the end of World War Two. Getty Images. The devastated city...
1 day ago · The first atomic bomb ever to target a populated area was launched over Hiroshima, Japan, by the United States on 6 August 1945. A second bomb targeted Nagasaki two days later. The two atomic bombs killed approximately 120 000 people. A similar number died later of burn and radiation injuries. It is estimated that 650 000 people survived the ...
Aug 6, 2020 · A new book of photos documents the human impact of the bombings that ended World War II — and challenges a common American perception of the destruction in Japan.
- Overview
- Hiroshima: Before and After
- Nagasaki: Before and After
Before the 1945 atomic blasts, they were thriving cities. In a flash, they became desolate wastelands.
In early August 1945, warfare changed forever when the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, devastating the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and killing more than 100,000 people. America’s immediate goal was to hasten Japan’s surrender, end World War II and avoid further Allied casualties. But it also wanted to showcase to the world—the Soviet Union in particular—the hugely destructive power of its new technology. The images of Hiroshima and Nagasaki below illustrate that power: what Japan’s Emperor Hirohito called in his statement of surrender “a new and most cruel bomb.”
On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., the crew of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped the first wartime atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan, a bustling regional hub that served as an important military communications center, storage depot and troop gathering area. The bomb, code-named "Little Boy," detonated with an estimated 15,000 tons of TNT, destroying five square miles of the city and directly killing some 70,000 people. Final casualty numbers remain unknown; by the end of 1945, injuries and radiation sickness had raised the death toll to more than 100,000. In subsequent years, cancer and other long-term radiation effects steadily drove the number higher.
The downtown Hiroshima shopping district, c. 1945. After the bombing, only rubble and a few utility poles remained.
A man wheels his bicycle through Hiroshima, days after the city was leveled by the atomic bomb blast. The view here is looking west/northwest, about 550 feet from where the bomb hit.
Looking upriver on the Motoyasu-gawa River, circa 1945.
Three days after the destruction of Hiroshima, another American bomber dropped its payload over Nagasaki, some 185 miles southwest of Hiroshima, at 11:02 a.m. Not the original intended blast site, Nagasaki only became the target after the crew found that city, Kokura, obscured by clouds. The Nagasaki explosive, a plutonium bomb code-named “Fat Man,” weighed nearly 10,000 pounds and was built to produce a 22-kiloton blast. Its destructive force wiped out about 30 percent of the city. Some 60,000 to 80,000 people died in Nagasaki, both from direct exposure and long-term side effects of radiation.
The harbor at Nagasaki, Japan, c. 1920. A Christian church can be seen in the foreground.
Among the few buildings that survived after the plutonium bomb decimated Nagasaki was the same Christian church as above.
A street in Nagasaki, Japan, c. 1940.
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Nagasaki. Type: City with 409,000 residents. Description: core city in Kyushu, Japan. Categories: core city of Japan, prefectural capital of Japan, big city, port settlement, city for international conferences and tourism, city of Japan and locality. Location: Nagasaki, Kyushu, Japan, East Asia, Asia.
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Aug 11, 2015 · Pictures: Nagasaki and Hiroshima Survivors Share Their Stories. Washington DC August 11, 2015. 70 years ago last week, the atomic bombs were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The hibakusha— the "exposed" in Japanese—have overcome social stigma to speak out and tell their story.
