Shock wave
Coming from the sky, the punishment for the Japanese city was the first atomic bomb used in military, launched by a B-29 bomber, the Flying Superfortress, the United States. Not even the crew of the B-29 - dubbed the Enola Gay - knew what kind of bomb carried. Innocently named Little Boy, the bomb was dropped to 10 thousand feet, having descended by parachute and exploded 650 meters from the ground on the city center. All that was 500 meters from the epicenter of the blast was immediately incinerated. Within seconds, the shock wave reached a radius of more than 7 km. Less than one hour after the blast, 78,000 people had died and 10,000 simply evaporated. 37 000 were injured and thousands were dying in the days, months and years ahead. For many years due to deficient children born to mothers radiation had been exposed. In the devastated city, the shadow people, plants, bridges, was printed in negative - the mark of the atomic shadow.
Mushroom
The explosion released a ridiculous amount of radiation and the world first met the image of the dreaded mushroom cloud. Altogether, died about 300 000 people as a direct result of the attack. Who is not dead burned, crushed or pulverized later suffered the effects of radiation - usually death from cancer.
The time Nagasaki
The intention of the U.S. government was that Japan surrendered. Even with the destruction of Hiroshima, the Emperor Hirohito showed no surrender. Three days later, on August 9, the scientific-military operation was repeated in Nagasaki on the island of Kyushu, the southernmost Japan The B-29 launches Grand Artist pump number 2, Fat Boy, at 11:02 h . Of the 250 000 inhabitants, 36 000 died that day. The carnage was not higher because the mountainous terrain protected the city center. Four months later, however, the deaths in the city amounted to 80 000. Nagasaki, in fact, was the secondary objective. Was reached because the weather Kokura, the primary target, prevented the destructive effects of the pump were planned. In 1950, Japan's national census indicated that there were 280,000 people in the country contaminated by radiation from the bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Unconditional surrender
Historians and military analysts consider the atomic attack on two Japanese cities entirely unnecessary, and inhumane. The whole world knew that Japan was defeated. The United States closed the siege on the Japanese islands after the conquest of Iwo Jima and Okinawa islands of Japan near the unconditional surrender of Japan occurred on August 14, but World War II would only be officially closed on 2 September 1945, a Sunday, so the Japanese representatives signed the declaration aboard the U.S. battleship Missouri.
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