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What happened in hiroshima on the 6th of august 1945. A few days later Japan announced its surrender. The two atomic bombs with the Soviet declaration of war against Japan on 8 August 1945 finally left the Japanese no choice. The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945 respectively.
At the time he was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital and as befits the trained scientist he was Hachiya was also an alert observer who was able to. What happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Hiroshima Japan is Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki devastated when the nuclear weapon atomic bomb Little Boy is dropped by the United States Boeing B-29 Superfortress B-29 Enola Gay.
On August 6 1945 during World War II 1939-45 an American B-29 bomber dropped the worlds first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. August 6th 1945 was a monday. Atomic bombings Victims aftermath.
On August 6 1945 the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Each hosting several thousand inhabitants these two cities turned into a living hell when atomic bombs were dropped during WW2. An atomic bomb was used containing more power than 12000 tons of TNT and producing more than 2000 times the blast of the most powerful bomb ever dropped before was dropped on the city of Hiroshima killing an estimated 140000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare.
Heading out to the citycentre matsushige took the only photographs taken of hiroshima on. Hachiya was at home and awake early on a morning that was still warm and beautiful as he wrote in the daily diary he kept. Three days later another bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki killing nearly 40000 more people.
Historical Events for 6th August 1945 World War II. Hiroshima is devastated when the atomic bomb Little Boy is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. 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.