Interesting question. That battle began in February 1945. It was July when the decision was taken thus Iwo Jima was already taken.
The nuclear attacks of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WW2.
There was no nuclear war. One atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima followed by another on Nagasaki three days later. That ended WW2.
The U.S. use nuclear bombs during World War ll to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki after Japan refused to surrender.
During world war 2, the project existed to create the nuclear weapons dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Not one city was destroyed during the Manhattan Project. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed as a result of the success of the project but not during it.
The cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were selected as targets after exhaustive study by military specialists. They stood that the coclution will be the surrender.
90,000-166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000-80,000 in Nagasaki were killed and the cities were devastated and flattened.
I think we bombed many cities in Japan during WWII but the two cities we dropped nuclear bombs on were Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The first use of nuclear energy before electricity was in the form of nuclear weapons, such as the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II in 1945.
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During World War 2 they were 'nuked' (bombed with a nuclear bomb) by the American and British forces. These cities are the only cities ever to be a victim of a nuclear attack in a war.
In Hiroshima a uranium fission bomb was used and in Nagasaki a plutonium Implosion type bomb was used.