The United States Strategic Bombing Survey that report describes the effects of the atomic bombs which were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively.

Interesting #Facts about Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki There were five Japanese cities on the US’s initial hit list and Nagasaki was not one of them. Before the atomic attacks, the US Air Force dropped pamphlets in Japan. Click to read more about it @@-->.

Shinto arc still standing in Nagasaki after the atom bomb, August 1945.

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This is a watch, from someone in Hiroshima, that survived the Enola gay bombing. This item was of some value to a Japanese. I find it extraordinary that this watch survived the atomic bomb when so many people died.

Read "Hiroshima Nagasaki" by Paul Ham available from Rakuten Kobo. With the world today on the brink of nuclear war- and Japan again in the nuclear firing line - award-winning author Paul...

Exactly 70 years ago the US dropped the atomic bomb, nicknamed Little Boy, on Hiroshima, killing 140,000 of its 350,000 citizens. Three days later, a second bomb, Fat Man, was dropped on Nagasaki. Photographer Issei Kato has paired archive images of the ruins with how they look today

On two days in August 1945, U.S. planes dropped two atomic bombs, one on Hiroshima, another on Nagasaki, leading to the unconditional surrender of Japan and the end of World War II