The US Army Air Force dropped atomic bombs on the two Japanese cities, as ordered by then-President of the US, Harry S. Truman.
During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the US conducted two atomic bombings against Japan, on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombs were built in the US with plutonium and uranium from mines in the Congo in Africa. The top-secret effort to build the bombs was the Manhattan Project.
"Little Boy" was the codename of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, on August 6, 1945. It was dropped from the "Enola Gay", a B-29 Superfortress bomber which was piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets (retired as a General) of the 393rd Bombardment Squadron, Heavy, 509th Composite Group of the United States Army Air Forces.
"Fat Man" is the codename for the atomic bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945, and was dropped from "Bockscar", another B-29 Superfortress bomber, this time piloted by Major Charles Sweeney, also of the 393d Bombardment Squadron, Heavy, 509th Composite Group.
The "Enola Gay" was named for Colonel Tibbets' mother, Enola Gay Tibbets. "Bockscar" is a pun, based on the word "boxcar", the aircraft being named after Captain Frederick C. Bock, aircraft commander of "Bockscar" (the pilot is not the same as the aircraft commander).
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.
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Japan did not drop any atomic bombs. Rather, the US dropped two atomic bombs on them. The cities that were hit were Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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On August 6th and 9th 1945, the US dropped 2 atomic bombs onto Japan which caused just over 200,000 people dead and many more scared from life. The 2 cities which the atomic bombs were dropped on were Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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