What was the social impact of the drop of the atomic bomb in japan?

Answer 1

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bombings of (1945). The atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 represents arguably the most important and most sinister development in warfare in the 20th century.

THOUGH; more people died in the conventional bombing of Tokyo, the atomic bombings were significant because they caused death on a huge scale from one bomb dropped by one plane. Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain potent symbols and a sterile controversy over the use of the atomic weapons continues. In purely military terms the bombs proved decisive in persuading the Japanese government to think the unthinkable and accept defeat.

BUT:

According to most estimates, the immediate effects of the blast killed approximately 70,000 people in Hiroshima. Estimates of total deaths by the end of 1945 from burns, radiation and related disease, the effects of which were aggravated by lack of medical resources, range from 90,000 to 140,000.Some estimates state up to 200,000 had died by 1950, due to cancer and other long-term effects.Actually, from 1950 to 1990, roughly 9% of the cancer and leukemia deaths among bomb survivors was due to radiation from the bombs, the statistical excess being estimated to 89 leukemia and 339 solid cancers.

It was after the two bombs dropped on Japan that as the two cities were destroyed , Japan decided that it would be best to surrender , as we know Japan would fight for years otherwise.

Answer 2

Well, most of the people living there got a disease. I read something about it in a book called "Sadako and the Thousand Cranes."

Answer 3

the social impact of the drop of the atomic bomb in japan are the following:

• many people were injured
• houses were destroid