The bomb was dropped so that Japan would quickly surrender, and the war would end, instead of more lives being lost over the ...

Japanese military and civilian casualties would have been far heavier. But on August 6, 1945, a U.S. B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, followed by another A-bomb on Nagasaki on ...

What happened on 6 August 1945? In the small hours of a warm ... disfigured and poisoned by radiation from the bomb. Three ...

Leaflets dropped on cities in Japan warning civilians about the atomic bomb, dropped c. August 6, 1945. Aftermath of the August 6, 1945 Atomic Bomb blast in Hiroshima, 1946. Library of Congress ...

It is 26 July, 1945 ... Japan. The news is soon broadcast on national radio and, the next morning, published on the front ...

Shigemoto was fifteen years old when a United States B-29 bomber, named the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb, code-named “Little Boy,” over his city of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Little Boy ...

After Christ’s example, I forgive my persecutors. I do not hate them. I ask God to have pity on all, and I hope my blood will ...

In August 1945, the US troops dropped nuclear bombs on Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is known that there was no military sense to do that. The US just wanted to demonstrate its ...

A 92-year-old man who survived the 1945 atomic bombing in Hiroshima in western Japan has started sharing his experiences with ...

the atomic bomb, became more evident to them after the Nagasaki attack, which took place on August 9, 1945. On that night, Japanese Emperor Hirohito convened a meeting of the Supreme War Council.

At 2.7 million, Brazil has the world's largest community of Nikkei — immigrants from Japan and their descendants.

He was 1.5 kilometers from ground zero when the United States detonated an atomic bomb over Hiroshima in western Japan on Aug. 6, 1945, killing thousands of people in an instant. It marked the ...