The devastation wrought at Hiroshima was not.
What happened when the atomic bomb was dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki. The explosion immediately killed an. On August 6 1945 an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in Japan by an American B-29 bomber killing nearly 80000 people instantly while tens of thousands died later due to the radiation exposure. The rays of heat absorbed every drop of water from the human body.
A second bomb followed three days later over. The day aims at raising awareness about the devastating power of the atomic bomb which was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ending the Second World war. In both Hiroshima and Nagasaki which was hit by an atomic bomb on August 9 1945 the rate of various cancers and leukaemia have risen.
Some defend them as necessary blows against an implacable foe others deride them as acts of savagery. 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. Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II American bombing raids on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima August 6 1945 and Nagasaki August 9 1945 that marked the first use of atomic weapons in war.
The two bombings killed between 129000 and 226000 people most of whom were civilians and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. Of 50000 radiation victims from both cities studied by the. The first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 by an American B-29 bomber dubbed the Enola Gay.
The uranium gun-type atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima had an explosive blast equal to approximately 12-15000 tons of TNT incinerating five square miles of the city surrounding the Aioi Bridge. In the final year of World War II the Allies prepared for. Three days later another atomic bomb called Fat Man was dropped over Nagasaki killing more than 40000 people.
On August 6 1945 the US dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima and three days later on August 9 it dropped another bomb on Nagasaki killing hundreds of thousands of people and affecting many more who would suffer the effects of the radiation from. While the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombings was horrendous and nightmarish with innumerable casualties the populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not allow their cities to become the sort of wasteland that some thought was inevitable. On August 9 1945 a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States at Nagasaki resulting finally in Japans unconditional surrender.