Atomic bombing

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 On August 6th, 1945 The first nuclear weapon was used in world war II.

An American B-29 bomber jet was set flying over the city of Hiroshima, Japan Dropping a 9,700 pound atomic bomb Called "little boy", Then three days later a second bomb was dropped called "Fat man" was dropped over Nagasaki, Japan, killing over 210,000 people in total including men, woman and children.

The bombing on Japan was a retaliatory move after the Japanese attack on pearl harbor in December 1941, After the second bombing japan finally surrendered consequently ending WWII.



Five cities on the US initial hitlist and Nagasaki was not one of them

 Originally there were five cities that were going to get bombed Kokura, Yokohama, Hiroshima, Niigata and Kyoto, But Kyoto was spared because the US secretary of war Henry Stinson was fond of the ancient Japanese capital when he spent his honeymoon there several decades ago so Nagasaki took its place.

The Aftermath of the bombings 

The bomb in Hiroshi killed around 80,000 people in the first second that it exploded turning the closest people into ash and creating "the Hiroshima shadows" because the blast was so intense it permanently burned the shapes of the people who were incinerated.

Over the course of several decades, over 100,000 people died from radiation poisoning and the soils of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were dead and unable to grow any greens for almost a century.













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