Nagasaki and Hiroshima Bombings

These are the locations of the atomic bomb drops of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Japan_map_hiroshima_nagasaki.png

The Mushroom Cloud that resulted from the drop of the atomic bomb "Little Boy" dropped by the U.S. airship "Enola Gay" on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945 at 8:15 am. Taken from http://fugato.net/2004/11/



At 11:02 a.m. on August 9, 1945, the [U.S. Aircraft Bockscar] dropped an atomic bomb [nicknamed Fat Man] on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. An area of 6.7 million square meters was completely levelled, 11,574 houses were completely burned, 148,793 people were killed or injured, and thousands died of radioactive poisoning in the years that followed. http://home.earthlink.net/~platter/nuclear.html


A Japanese report on the bombing characterized Nagasaki as "like a graveyard with not a tombstone standing". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_and_nagasaki

Original art by Michael Fletcher of the Genbaku Dome

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were announced as attacks on military bases--but they were civilian cities. President Truman himself said "The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians." However as we know today, Hiroshima was NOT a military base, but a city filled with civilians. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=12165&st=&st1=#



















This picture was found at http://palestinethinktank.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/coll-damage-cartoon.jpg. It relates the basic principle behind the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings. President Truman told everyone that Nagasaki and Hiroshima were military bases, but in reality they were civilian cities where thousands of women and children died. Collateral damage--or ruthless murder?



QUIZ QUESTIONS:

1. Which U. S. Airship dropped the bomb nicknamed "Little Boy"?
Enola Gay
2. Which two cities in Japan were bombed by the U.S.?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
3. What day was the Bomb "Fat Man" dropped on?
August 9th, 1945
4. What did President Truman say about the atomic bomb drops that we know now to be a lie?
That Hiroshima and Nagasaki were military bases, they were actually civilian cities



Other Links:

http://www.wright.edu/~jack.mcknight/diary/diary/45-08.htm
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/bomb/large/documents/index.php?documentdate=1946-06-19&documentid=65&studycollectionid=abomb&pagenumber=1
http://www-sdc.med.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/n50/start-E.html
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/library/correspondence/index.htm#decision
http://www.doug-long.com/debate.htm
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/trinity/supplement/procon.html
http://www.atomicarchive.com/History/twocities/index.shtml
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/bomb/large/index.php
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/MED/index.shtml
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/index.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20050621004251/http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/specials/0506/0617weller.html
http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/top_e.html
http://www1.city.nagasaki.nagasaki.jp/na-bomb/museum/museume01.html
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/72.pdf
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044324/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080689/
http://kehmax.googlepages.com/taleoftwocities-hiroshimaandnagasaki
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9lwvImJqT0
http://www.designobserver.com/archives/entry.html?id=38841