It has been debated and still is being debated today whether the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was necessary.
The bombings in August 1945 was the first time and the only time atomic weaponry has been used in warfare. It was in January 1945 when Major General Curtis LeMay used precision bombing to try and target industrial facilities but he didn’t know that Japan carried out most of the manufacturing in small workshops and private homes. Once that wasn’t successful the U.S decided to shift from precision bombing to bombardment and over six months they firebombed 67 Japanese cities. This was a plan within the bigger plan to get Japan to surrender.
In Hiroshima post the bombing almost 63% of the buildings were completely destroyed and nearly 92% of the structures in the city had been either destroyed or damaged by blast and fire. In Nagasaki nearly 22.7% of the buildings were consumed by flames. The atomic bombs weighed 4,082 kg and was as powerful as 20,000,000 kg of TNT and when it exploded
The effects on the towns infrastructure was just one of the loses to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 246,000 civilians and soldiers (includes bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki). Anyone in Hiroshima would not have really felt anything but their bodies would have fallen apart when the radiation killed all their cells. People on the fringes surprisingly suffered the most and if you weren’t in Hiroshima or Nagasaki when the bomb went off you would have been blinded. The fact that lives were still being lost months and years after the bombings due to burns, radiation, cancer and other injuries. The radiation dose from the atomic bombings were equivalent to thousands of thousands of chest x-rays.
The bombings in August 1945 was the first time and the only time atomic weaponry has been used in warfare. It was in January 1945 when Major General Curtis LeMay used precision bombing to try and target industrial facilities but he didn’t know that Japan carried out most of the manufacturing in small workshops and private homes. Once that wasn’t successful the U.S decided to shift from precision bombing to bombardment and over six months they firebombed 67 Japanese cities. This was a plan within the bigger plan to get Japan to surrender.
In Hiroshima post the bombing almost 63% of the buildings were completely destroyed and nearly 92% of the structures in the city had been either destroyed or damaged by blast and fire. In Nagasaki nearly 22.7% of the buildings were consumed by flames. The atomic bombs weighed 4,082 kg and was as powerful as 20,000,000 kg of TNT and when it exploded
The effects on the towns infrastructure was just one of the loses to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 246,000 civilians and soldiers (includes bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki). Anyone in Hiroshima would not have really felt anything but their bodies would have fallen apart when the radiation killed all their cells. People on the fringes surprisingly suffered the most and if you weren’t in Hiroshima or Nagasaki when the bomb went off you would have been blinded. The fact that lives were still being lost months and years after the bombings due to burns, radiation, cancer and other injuries. The radiation dose from the atomic bombings were equivalent to thousands of thousands of chest x-rays.