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Why were Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? A New Kind of Warfare. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were experiments in a new kind of warfare, whose full implications were not entirely understood at the time.
6 de ago. de 2019 · CNN — On this date 74 years ago, the US dropped the first of two atomic bombs on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing more than 70,000 people instantly. A second bomb followed three days...
Instead, the atomic bomb served as a tool to bring the war in the Pacific to a close sooner. Another reason why the United States dropped the atomic bombs—and, specifically, the second one on Nagasaki —has to do with the Soviet Union.
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.
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18 de nov. de 2009 · The bomb was dropped over Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. The bomb detonated with an energy of around 15 kilotons of TNT and was the first nuclear weapon deployed in wartime.
13 de may. de 2024 · Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. It had more than 2,000 times the blast power of the British “Grand Slam,” which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare.
Kenny Chmielewski. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski. This infographic describes the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, one of the two attacks by the United States on Japan at the end of World War II that resulted in Japan’s surrender. These attacks were the first use of atomic weapons in war.
