Half of the death toll, were the consequences of radiation sickness in the two weeks that followed the attack.
See: Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
provided uranium for the atomic bombs
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The Japanese surrenderd
That was the date that the nuclear age begun.
Those were the last steps to bring the war to an end.
Together with the bomb dropped over Nagasaki, they put the end of the war.
America dropped the first atom bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki of Japan, causing havoc in both cities. Even today, children borne in these cities, have radiation effect and paralytic structure in their bodies.
The atomic bomb explosions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended the war.
The mortality was greater in Hiroshima because the city was located in a flat delta, in contrast to Nagaski's Urakami Valley. The Nagasaki-Urakami is enclosed by mountain ridges that shielded the city. Nevertheless, the instant lethal effect revealed consideration of the use of these annihilative weapons in warfare can be tolerated by man now that nukes of far greater destructive power are now available. - The real mortality of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Japan will never be known. The destruction and overwhelming chaos made orderly counting impossible. It is not unlikely that the estimates of killed and wounded in Hiroshima (150,000) and Nagasaki (75,000) are over conservative.
The people bombed by the only two atomic bombs ever used were the people who lived in the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
The atomic bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki had devastating and far-reaching consequences on the country of Japan. The atomic bomb that hit Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 was originally meant for the city of Kokura, but it was too cloudy in Kokura that day and thus the second location was made the primary target - Nagasaki. After the bomb had dropped and exploded, it released a blast equivalent to 21 kilotons of TNT and created 7,000°F temperatures. A radius of complete destruction was estimated at about a mile, with fires raging for two miles from the bomb drop site. Death tolls estimated anywhere from 40,000 to 75,000, with a total of 80,000 deaths from the aftereffects of the bombing. Survivors of the blast were likely to suffer from illnesses relating to radiation, the most likely one being leukemia.