When the nuclear weapons were detonated over the two Japanese cities, even the first responders - hospitals, firemen, aid organisations - couldn't help. The blast also caused massive structural damage, destroying 69 per cent of the buildings in Hiroshima.
Many children were later born with birth defects, while radiation-induced cancers killed more people. Even the worst of all other previous bombing attacks on Germany and Japan, such as the incendiary raids on Hamburg in 1943 and on Tokyo in 1945, were not comparable to the paralyzing effect of the atomic bombs. As Japan refused to surrender, another nuclear bomb named 'Fat Man' was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9.ĪLSO READ | Hiroshima Day 2022: How the atomic bombs ended World War IIĪbout 140,000 people were killed in Hiroshima and 80,000 people in Nagasaki died by the end of 1945. In both Hiroshima and Nagasaki the tremendous scale of the disaster largely destroyed the cities as entities. Less than one month later, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb nicknamed 'Little Boy' on Japan’s Hiroshima on August 6. The 'black rain' that fell after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been generally believed to contain radioactive materials. “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds," Robert Oppenheimer, one of the lead scientists behind the bomb’s creation, recalled a piece of Hindu scripture as he witnessed the first test detonation of a nuclear weapon on July 16. In August 1945, a Japanese newspaper sent a photographer from Tokyo to two cities that the United States military had just leveled with atomic bombs. WHAT HAPPENED?ĭuring World War II, the United States secretly developed Atomic Bomb technology under the Manhattan Project. Though in the last 77 years Japan recovered from the attack and has flourished, the horror of nuclear weapons lives on.
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