Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, During World War II, U.S. bombing raids on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (Aug. 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (Aug. 9, 1945) that marked the first use of atomic weapons in war. Tens of thousands were killed in the initial explosions and many more would later succumb to radiation poisoning. #shorts #worldwar2 #war2kill #bombing #hiroshimaday #nagasaki #worldwar #bombing The bombs were the product of the Manhattan Project, a top-secret three-year $2 billion enterprise that was the largest scientific undertaking up to that time. The first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, at Alamogordo Bombing Range, south of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Within hours of this successful test, the U.S. began moving atomic bomb components to a staging base at Tinian, in the Mariana Islands. On Aug. 6, 1945, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay took off from Tinian and dropped a uranium gun-assembly bomb on Hiroshima. Some 70,000 people were killed instantly, and tens of thousands more would succumb to radiation poisoning within a year. On Aug. 9, 1945, the B-29 Bockscar lingered over its primary target of Kokura for some time, but the bombardier was unable to sight his aimpoint through heavy cloud cover. Bockscar then proceeded to Nagasaki, where it dropped a plutonium implosion bomb, instantly killing an estimated 40,000 people. As in Hiroshima, many thousands more would die later from the effects of radiation. On Aug. 10, 1945, one day after the bombing of Nagasaki, the Japanese government issued a statement agreeing to surrender under the terms of the Potsdam Declaration. TAG(178) history documentary nuclear ww2