By executive order of President Harry S. Truman the U.S. dropped the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" on the city of Hiroshima on Monday, August 6, 1945,[1] [2] followed by the detonation of "Fat Man" over Nagasaki on August 9. These are the only attacks with nuclear weapons in the history of warfare.
The nuclear attacks of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WW2.
The media reported it worldwide.
The bombing of Hiroshima brought us to the atomic era. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the last attacks in World War Two. Japan surrendered after the attacks.
The attacks killed hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians to end the war.
The two cities of Japan which were hit by the atomic bomb by America were "NAGASAKI" and "HIROSHIMA".
Some viewed it as barbaric, or overkill). It has been said that Japan was already on the brink of surrendering before the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is also because the attacks involved many civilians dying from the blasts, or from nuclear fallout and radiation afterwards.
They said they were not Japanese no more and that they were Americans now.
In Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
They were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
See atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki