History of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The history of the Second World War it is full of innumerable aerial confrontations, it will be in such battles where a great series of bombings would take place. In this lesson from a TEACHER we will discuss history of Nagasaki and Hiroshima since they are the most famous bombings of the whole war, since it was the moment in which they were used the famous nuclear bombs that still, to this day, continue to leave their mark on the inhabitants of the region.

We begin the lesson on the history of Nagasaki and Hiroshima by stopping at a fundamental point to understand the Japanese movements throughout the period of World War II.

A fact to take into account to understand the alliance that Japan made with the Germany of the Third Reich is found in the Naval treaty of Washington, a document that forced the Japanese country to have a limit on its vessels, causing the United States and England to obtain naval supremacy.

This made the Japanese feel neglected, forcing them to take an alternative that was to expand by what they would call their

sphere of influence, a fact very similar to what the Germans used to annex various parts of Europe. Once it began its expansion through French colonial territory as of July 1941, the US proposed a trade vetol to the Japanese country reducing its income by 75%, a fact that marked the end of relations between the two countries.

All this would result in the start of the war between Japan and the United States, the trigger being the attack on the basis of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

In this other lesson from a TEACHER we will discover what the Facing sides in World War II.

From the beginning of the warlike confrontation between both powers, the United States began to examine the weakest points of the The Japanese Empire, or at least the places where more damage could be done to quickly end the war with this Asian country. For this reason, the Los Álamos National Laboratory was in charge of looking for perfect areas for the launch of a “exemplary punishment ". Within the search for the locations, it was seen thanks to the sweeps of North American radars that the city of Hiroshima had a large arms depot, in addition to having a fairly important port.

Continuing with the lesson on the history of Nagasaki and Hiroshima we stop the August 6, 1945, the date on which the attack on the city began. As we have mentioned previously, this had been defined as an important industrial point for the supply of the Japanese army and, therefore, it was a point that, if it disappeared, would make a great dent in the country nippon.

Thus at 08:15 am the attack was launched, which left a huge fireball which had as its main focus the Shima Surgical Hospital, causing all buildings within a radius of 16 km to lose all glass at the time of the explosion. According to the testimonies of the time, it could be felt 60 km away. The result of this was that the 69% of the city was destroyed instantly, causing it to enter 70,000-80,000 people lost their lives.

We continue the lesson going now to talk about what happened in the city of Nagasaki. This location was a strong industrial core and that it had served throughout the war period to create weapons for the Japanese army, in addition to being a fairly important port for the transport of goods and personnel.

But the downside was that most of the workers lived in wooden houses and next to factories because it was a city that had been built as it grew, that is, without any order architectural.

On August 9, the air attack began and at 11:01 a.m. the bomb was detonated, dying at the time of the explosion between 35,000-40,000 people. destroying 40% of the total city.

In this other lesson we will discover the development and the end of World War II so that you better understand the causes of this warlike conflict.

We finished the lesson on the history of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, talking about the events that occurred after the two bombs were dropped:

• First of all, the surrender of japan, whose only request was to maintain the imperial throne, once the United States accepted this, the emperor himself wrote a speech where he explained to the Japanese people the need to stop hostilities, since nuclear weapons could end life as they knew it at the time. The surrender was given on September 2, 1945 aboard the USS Missouri.
• Second, it opened from A 1948 study on the effects of nuclear weapons on the affected population. These studies revealed that many of those affected suffered from serious diseases, such as cancer of different types, undoubtedly due to the chemical reactions given after the absorption of the nuclear particles by the layers capillaries.