1. THE BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA
Almudena
Corrales
Social Studies
2. 1. THE ATOMIC BOMB
• An atomic bomb contains radiation that can destroy
or damage cells in living beings.
• It deffers from a conventional bombr because it also
pollutes water, soil and air.
• Not only does the atomic bomb cause immediate
destruction but it also has long-term effects: it can
cause different type of CANCER and has a
NEGATIVE IMPACT ON FERTILITY.
3. 2. HIROSHIMA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
• July 1945, Amercian scientists successfully tested an
atomic bomb in New Mexico Desert.
• It was Truman who made the decision to use the
new weapons against Japan. PRESIDENT TRUMAN the
president of the United
Sates of America. He
• Hiroshima was a supply and minor logistics base for
served as military during
the Japanese military. This city was the centre for the First World War and
communication, storage, and an assembly area for faced the Second World
troops. It was one of the Japanese cities that were War as president. He
decided to use nuclear
deliberately freed from bombings, so that it could be weapons against Japan. He
used to measure the harm caused by atomic bomb. also developed the Marshall
Plan to rebuild Europe after
the war, and elaborated the
Truman doctrine to contain
communism.
4. 3. THE ENOLA GAY APPROACHES
• Hiroshima was the main target of the first Atomic
Bombic, followed by Kokura and Nagasaki as
alternative targets. The B-29 Enola Gay, which
belonged to the Bombing Squad 393d and was piloted
and comanded by Coronel Paul Tibbets, took off from
North Field Air Base in Tinian and embarked on a six
hour journey towards Japan. B-29 United States military
airplane developed to carry
• At around 7:00 am, the early alerts system of and drop bombs. Created for
Japanese radars detected that some North America air the Second World War, it was
craft were approaching and sent out an alert to the most advanced bomber of
different cities, including Hiroshima. However, many its time.
people ignored this advise.
• The bomb Little Boy was dropped at 8:15 am over
Hiroshima. It is estimated that the temperature rose to
more than one million degrees centigrade.
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7. 4. THE AFTERMATH
• Tokyo inmediately formed the Committee of
Countermeasures of the Atomic bomb, composed of army
and navy personnel and ministers of the interior.
• However a part of the members doubted than an atomic
bomb had even been used.
• They thought that US technology was not advanced enough
to develop one.
• Only when personnel went to Hiroshima to investigate the
destruction that had occured did the accept that no
conventional bomb could have caused such damage.
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9. Radio Tokyo describes the destruction in
Hiroshima:
“Practically all living things, humans
and animals were burned until they died”.
August 8, 1945
• On August 9, 1945, Nagashaki was the target
of the world’s second atomic bomb attck. An
A-bomb nicknamed “Fat man” killed more
than 70.000 people.
• Japan formally signed its unconditional
surrender on september 2, 1945.
