Before the Japanese could surrender, they bombed Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The two bombs killed over 200,000 people, most of them civilians. Some argue they were necessary to prevent further bloodshed. According to them, the Japanese wouldn't surrender otherwise. Thus, the bombings actually saved lives.

2017年1月17日 · In my opinion the most notable impact has been on the local culture of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hiroshima sees itself as a "peace city" and there has been a major anti-nuclear campaign based out of there, spearheaded by the successive mayors of the city. Nagasaki also uses the bombing as an educational opportunity to teach about the war in general.

As for the atomic bombings themselves, first and foremost Japanese society holds Hiroshima and Nagasaki up as the epitome of the suffering and destruction that war brings. Many Japanese may feel it was unnecessary for Japan's surrender (being, perhaps, better acquainted with the efforts of the Japanese doves to seek peace than Western ...

Thus, you don't hear much about EMP at Hiroshima and Nagasaki because it was largely inconsequential compared to the heat and blast. The really damaging nuclear EMP comes from nuclear detonations in the stratosphere , as a result of the Compton effect .

2015年12月28日 · Even before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the war situation had developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage. Allied forces had been taking island after island, and were firebombing dozens of cities to the ground. So I assume the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki wasn't the sole cause of Japan's surrender.

2014年11月4日 · Obviously, once the atomic bombs dropped in 1945, the war was almost over. There wasn't much time to rebuild, or even offer aid, to the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki before the Japanese surrendered and the Americans started arriving, which no doubt changed how things like war damage and reconstruction were handled.

**President Truman in a August 9, 1945 radio address to the American people, outlined the reasons why we dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (and later Nagasaki) I realize the tragic significance of the atomic bomb. Its production and its use were not lightly undertaken by this Government. But we knew that our enemies were on the search for it.

2020年4月21日 · A large group of evacuees were in fact gathering in the center of [Hiroshima] on the morning of August 6th, when the bombing happened. Bad timing. About Nagasaki, this article from the US Dept. of Energy states: A small conventional raid on Nagasaki on August 1st had resulted in a partial evacuation of the city, especially of school children.

The reason one sees Hiroshima and Nagasaki mentioned far more frequently than the Tokyo fire ride of 9-10 March 1945, is that those two attacks were the only use of atomic weapons. And, those two bombs caused Japan to surrender, while the Japanese had previously fought to the death, almost to a man, and when the numerous fire raids on Tokyo and ...

2015年2月25日 · Were there any pilots that declined to carry out the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? The answer is no. Then Lt. Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, who retired a Brigadier General, was put in charge of the newly formed 509th Composite Group of the Army Air Corps in September, 1944 (activated in December, 1944).