Hiroshima and Nagasaki
-US president Harry S Truman decides to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima 6 august 1945 and Nagasaki 9 august 1945
-Almost 100,000 died instantly in Hiroshima
-Aug 8 Soviet declare war on Japan
-Aug 9 70,000 killed in Nagasaki
-Radiation kills many more
-Emperor goes on air to tell japanese they must do the unthinkable and surrender
-Aug15 V.J. day
-Soviets fight on until Aug 30 in Sakhalin islands
-Almost 100,000 died instantly in Hiroshima
-Aug 8 Soviet declare war on Japan
-Aug 9 70,000 killed in Nagasaki
-Radiation kills many more
-Emperor goes on air to tell japanese they must do the unthinkable and surrender
-Aug15 V.J. day
-Soviets fight on until Aug 30 in Sakhalin islands
summary
During World War II , an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 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.”