What are facts about the bombing of hiroshima?

Answer 1

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks near the end of World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States at the executive order of U.S. President Harry S. Truman on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. After six months of intense fire-bombing of 67 other Japanese cities, followed by an ultimatum which was ignored by the Shōwa regime, the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on Monday,[1] August 6, 1945, [2] followed on August 9 by the detonation of the "Fat Man" nuclear bomb over Nagasaki. These are to date the only attacks with nuclear weapons in the history of warfare.[3] The bombs killed as many as 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki by the end of 1945,[4] roughly half on the days of the bombings. Amongst these, 15 to 20% died from injuries or illness attributed to radiation poisoning[5]. Since then, more have died from leukemia (231 observed) and solid cancers (334 observed) attributed to exposure to radiation released by the bombs[6]. In both cities, the overwhelming majority of the dead were civilians.[7][8][9] Six days after the detonation over Nagasaki, on August 15, Japan announced its surrender to the Allied Powers, signing the Instrument of Surrender on September 2, officially ending the Pacific War and therefore World War II. (Germany had signed its unavoidable[2] Instrument of Surrender on May 7, ending the war in Europe.) The bombings led, in part, to post-war Japan adopting Three Non-Nuclear Principles, forbidding that nation from nuclear armament.[10]

Answer 2

Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the two cities in Japan upon which the U.S. dropped atomic bombs at the end if World War II (6th and 9th August 1945).

Hiroshima has been rebuilt since the war and is now a beautiful city on the main island of Japan. It has been designated the City of Peace.

Answer 3

Those the last attacks that the US carried before Japan surrender. The first attack came in August 6, 1946 in Hiroshima and the other came 3 days after. When the Japanese saw the three planes, the alarm went off but thinking they were weather planes, the alarm was called out. At 8:15, Hiroshima's time, the bomb went off. It was President Truman who ordered the bombs.

Answer 4

Hiroshima got bombed on august 6 1945

Nagasaki was bombed on august 9 1945

Japan surrendered on august 15 1945

Hiroshima's bomb was named Little boy

Nagasaki's bomb was named Fat man

The plane Enola gay was the one to drop the bomb over Hiroshima

The plane Bock's car was the one to drop the bomb over Nagasaki

Little boy was uranium fueled

Fat man was plutonium fueled

President Truman gave the order to drop the atomic bomb

The bombs killed as many as 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki

Answer 5

The city of Hiroshima is located on the broad, flat delta of the Ota River, which has 7 channel outlets dividing the city into six islands which project into Hiroshima Bay. The city is almost entirely flat and only slightly above sea level; to the northwest and northeast of the city some hills rise to 700 feet. A single hill in the eastern part of the city proper about 1/2 mile long and 221 feet in height interrupted to some extent the spreading of the blast damage; otherwise the city was fully exposed to the bomb. Of a city area of over 26 square miles, only 7 square miles were completely built-up. There was no marked separation of commercial, industrial, and residential zones. 75% of the population was concentrated in the densely built-up area in the center of the city.

Hiroshima was a city of considerable military importance. It contained the 2nd Army Headquarters, which commanded the defense of all of southern Japan. The city was a communications center, a storage point, and an assembly area for troops. To quote a Japanese report, "Probably more than a thousand times since the beginning of the war did the Hiroshima citizens see off with cries of 'Banzai' the troops leaving from the harbor."

Nagasaki lies at the head of a long bay which forms the best natural harbor on the southern Japanese home island of Kyushu. The main commercial and residential area of the city lies on a small plain near the end of the bay. Two rivers divided by a mountain spur form the two main valleys in which the city lies. This mountain spur and the irregular lay-out of the city tremendously reduced the area of destruction, so that at first glance Nagasaki appeared to have been less devastated than Hiroshima.

The heavily build-up area of the city is confined by the terrain to less than 4 square miles out of a total of about 35 square miles in the city as a whole.

The city of Nagasaki had been one of the largest sea ports in southern Japan and was of great war-time importance because of its many and varied industries, including the production of ordnance, ships, military equipment, and other war materials. The narrow long strip attacked was of particular importance because of its industries

- The Manhattan Engineer District, June 29, 1946-

Answer 6

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the two cities in Japan that the Atomic Bomb was dropped on.