Did US drop bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki?

Answer 1

By Plane.
At the end of World War II, few questioned Truman's decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Most Americans accepted the obvious reasoning: the atomic bombings brought the war to a more timely end. They did not have a problem with over one hundred thousand of the enemy being killed. After all, the Japanese attacked America, and not the other way around. In later years, however, many have begun to question the conventional wisdom of "Truman was saving lives," putting forth theories of their own. However, when one examines the issue with great attention to the results of the atomic bombings and compares these results with possible alternatives to using said bombs, the line between truth and fiction begins to clear. Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan was for the purpose of saving lives and ending the war quickly in order to prevent a disastrous land invasion.

Answer 2

With 3 B-25 bombers. Enola gay was the one that had the bomb. On 6 August 1945, a number of eyes in the Japanese city of Hiroshima turned skyward at the drone of a US B-29 bomber flying across the cloudless sky, accompanied by two other aircraft. Their arrival was not a surprise; the early warning radar net had detected the incoming planes and an air-raid alert had been issued for the city. But soon the Japanese military realized that only three planes were incoming, and the alert was lifted. The anti-aircraft guns sat silent, and the fighter planes lingered in their hangars. A mere three planes were considered incapable of posing a significant threat, so it was presumed that these craft were weather planes.

Answer 3

In an effort to force Japan's surrender.
The purpose was to hasten the end of the war while saving US and allies troops. It is the only time a nuclear weapon has been used against people.

Answer 4

The U.S. dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki because the U.S. wanted to end the war with the least amount of casualties as possible. Even though about 900,000 people were killed in the atomic bomb attacks, the rate of death would have been less than if the U.S. invaded the Japanese homeland. If the U.S. invaded Japan there would have been more deaths because the U.S. forces would have been chewed up doing and amphibious invasion. The atomic bombs being dropped was the better of the two to end the war as quick and with the least amount of casualties as possible.

Answer 5

They were dropped from airplanes-- B-29 bombers. The bombers flew alone so they would not attract attention and have Japanese fighters zooming up to try to shoot them down. The bombers were up high. I think the atomic bombs had small parachutes attached to them to slow their fall and give the airplanes extra time to get away. I think the bombs were triggered to detonate when they reached a certain height a few thousand feet above the ground-- this would cause more damage then to have the bombs actually hit the ground first and then blow up.

Neither of the bombs dropped on Japan had parachutes, they were freefall gravity bombs with RADAR fuses set for about 1500 feet altitude. The B-29s flew to the target as a group of 3: bomber, instrumentation, and Photography planes. Some of the instruments deployed by the instrumentation plane used parachutes. The photography plane stayed at a safe distance. The bomber plane dropped the bomb then performed a sharp diving turn maneuver (that actually exceeded the design stress limits of the B-29) to gain enough speed to run away to a safe distance (estimated to be at least 9 miles) before detonation. These shots were as much tests of experimental devices as they were uses of powerful weapons.

About a dozen "pumpkin" bombs, conventional bombs having the same weight, size, and drop characteristics as the Fatman atomic bomb but impact fuses instead of RADAR fuses were dropped in identical 3 plane practice missions, starting in late July. Besides giving the crews practice, this gave the Japanese air defence forces experience with these insignificant attacks causing them to reduce their tendency to scramble fighters against the real attack when it came.

Answer 6

To get Japan to surrender unconditionally and end World War Two without having to invade Japan.

Answer 7

Yes. first hiroshima then nagasaki.