Japan Bombing
On August 6th, 1945, an American bomber dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, a Japanese city. Three days later, a second bomber dropped another bomb on Nagasaki. Many were killed and injured as a result of these bombings and Japan as a whole was greatly affected. Days after the bombings, people who had survived the attacks began feeling symptoms including fever, dizziness, nausea, headaches, nosebleeds, weakness, and more. The United States had permission from the United Kingdom as stated in the Quebec Agreement.
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Hiroshima Bombings |
At 8:15 in the morning on August 6, 1945, a deployed atomic bomb exploded over the city of Hiroshima. An hour previous to these happenings, the Japanese warning radar net detected that an American aircraft was headed for a southern part of Japan. The bomb took out nearly 90% of the city and killed about 80,000 people and thousands more died later on from exposure to radiation.
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Nagasaki Bombings
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A B-29 bomber dropped another A-bomb and killed about 40,000 people in Nagasaki three days after the Hiroshima attacks. The Mitsubishi Steel and Arms Works were hit by several of the bombs and Nagasaki Medical School and Hospital was hit by six bombs. At 7:50am on August 9th, 1945, an air raid alert was sounded. Forty minutes later, at 8:30, the all clear signal was given. At 11:00, the observation B-29 dropped instruments attached to parachutes and the other plane released the atomic bomb.
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