During World War II, When the world was fighting against each other. The United States prepared two deadly weapons to strike Japan. United Kingdom was also involved in this disastrous plan killing more than 200,000 people, among which maximum were civilians and others were armed forces of nuclear weapons. This act against humanity left the world in terror. The fear of death and urge to live life grew in their eyes with the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombs took several lives leaving behind dead bodies. Even till day, the people who were born from the laps of the survivors of the blast are handicap, deaf , dumb,blind or with any other deficiency disease.
On August 6, 1945, United States dropped B-29 bomb over the city Hiroshima in Japan killing 80,000 people and wiping out almost 90% of the city. Thousands of died due to explosion in Hiroshima. Three days later, USA again dropped B-29 bomb in Nagasaki killing almost 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of a new and most cruel bomb.
Hiroshima, a manufacturing center of some 350,000 people located about 500 miles from Tokyo, was selected as the first target. After arriving at the U.S. base on the Pacific island of Tinian, the more than 9,000-pound uranium-235 bomb was loaded aboard a modified B-29 bomber christened Enola Gay (after the mother of its pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets). The plane dropped the bomb–known as “Little Boy”–by parachute at 8:15 in the morning, and it exploded 2,000 feet above Hiroshima in a blast equal to 12-15,000 tons of TNT, destroying five square miles of the city.
The secondary target, Nagasaki, where the plutonium bomb “Fat Man” was dropped at 11:02 that morning. More powerful than the one used at Hiroshima, the bomb weighed nearly 10,000 pounds and was built to produce a 22-kiloton blast. The topography of Nagasaki, which was nestled in narrow valleys between mountains, reduced the bomb’s effect, limiting the destruction to 2.6 square miles.
This was not the end of the bombs against Japan. According to sources, US was planning more bomb attacks on Japan. After the several meetings, a lot of discussions. An imperial meeting was called by which the government decided to surrender with the signature of Prime Minister and other cabinet members. After a long conference with the members and then media, On August 12, the Emperor informed the imperial family of his decision to surrender. Despite the rebel by militarises the Emperor Hirohito was ready to surrender. On August 14, he recorded his announcement to surrender which the media telecast the other day. In his declaration, Hirohito referred to the atomic bombings, and did not explicitly mention the Soviets as a factor for surrender.But However, On 17 August,he stressed the impact of the Soviet invasion on his decision to surrender.
An estimated 90,000 to 140,000 people in Hiroshima (up to 39% of the population) and 60,000 to 80,000 people in Nagasaki (up to 32% of the population) died in 1945, though the number which died immediately as a result of exposure to the blast, heat, or due to radiation, is unknown. The birth deficiencies increased every year, Cancer rates increased. Despite, not coming in direct contact with the bombs but the explosion was explosive and lead to a greater area and infected the locals. Even till date, the symptoms are seen in people and it was a very explosive bomb which destroyed lives of many people, vanished away happiness leaving behind the dead bodies.
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