The bombing of Hirushima & Nagasaki

introduction:

World war 2 has begun in september 1st 1939 and lasted until september 2nd 1945. The war involved almost every country in the world, including: Europe, Pacific, Atlantic, South-East Asia, China, Middle East, Mediterranean, North Africa and Horn of Africa, briefly North and South America.

Until 1941 the war focused only in Europe, Mediterranean and Africa. On the morning of December 7 1941 the  Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service commited a major air attack on the U.S. navy military base in Pearl Harbor which was in Hawaii and was the biggest and the most important U.S. military base in the whole area. The attack was a complete surprise for the Americans and caused them many lives and sunked almost every single vessel there counting about 20 battelships and sumburines and about 300 aircrafts.

The U.S. had no intendence to take part in the war and had no interests in it. The Japaneese which were allies of the Nazi Germans were afraid that the American will enter the war as an enemy and will join the ‘Allies’ powers so they decided to an action and prevent them to do so. After the attack, exactly the opposite happened and the American entered the war.

The Japaneese left alone: 

The war in Europe concluded with an invasion of Germany by the Western Allies and the Soviet Union, culminating in the capture of Berlin by Soviet troops, the suicide of Adolf Hitler and the subsequent German unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945. The Japaneese insisted not to surrender without conditions and claimed that it

The reasons to bomb japan

The bombing of Nagasaki-August 9, 1945:

• This time the pluton bomb “fat man” is being used.
• The plane that had to lift the huge load took off and almost crashed, the city that was supposed to be blown up was a city called Kokura, but it was very cloudy and visibility was bad, target number 3 was chosen and Nagasaki is bombed at 11:02.
• The bomb weighted 22 kg’s.
• 74,000 were killed instantly.
• 75 thousand were seriously injured.
• Because the city is surrounded by mountains the area of ​​the injury is reduced.

global impications

The distribution of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the opening shot for a nuclear arms race between the world powers.
Various countries such as Russia, China and even Israel now hold nuclear heads.
Today, there is a very large taboo on nuclear weapons and is considered a non-conventional weapon of war with many restrictions.

The long term global outlook of the nuclear weapones use

the nuclear race

The bonbing of Hiroshima- August 6, 1945:

• A “little boy” bomb is thrown at the city at 8:15 pm.
• Anula Gay was the name of the plane that dropped the bomb.
• 80,000 people are killed immediately,
• 100,000 seriously injured.
• It turns out in retrospect that the blast heat was a million degrees Celsius, The city was destroyed in a firestorm.
• Truman announces the bombing of Hiroshima by an atomic bomb.

The implications on Japan

The Japanese were stunned by the terrible destruction the bomb had caused. The Japanese assumed that the US had more bombs, which was not true. And, on September 2, 1945, Japan formally surrendered. The bombings also had long-term health effects on Japanese residents:
About 46% of leukemia deaths and 11% of cancer deaths among city dwellers were caused by radiation exposure.

Japan’s perception of wars has changed completely since, and today, the country supports pacifism.