Dec 19, 2009

Salem on History | Atomic Bombing of Japan

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Series: Great Events from History: North American Series
Categories: Science, Military History, Technology, Inventions
Subcategories: Wars, Battles, World War II, Physics, Physicists, Nuclear Weapons, Power, Radiation, Bombs, Bombings, Explosions
Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, Asian History
Geographical Location: Japan
Date: August 6 and 9, 1945

Article abstract: The use of powerful new weapons against civilian populations precipitates the end of World War II and unleashes the nuclear age.

Summary of Event

At 2:45 a.m. on August 6, 1945, a U.S. B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, took off from the island of Tinian in the Mariana Islands, carrying an atomic bomb. Shortly after 8:15 a.m., from an altitude of about 31,600 feet, the bomb was released over Hiroshima, Japan. It exploded with terrible fury over the center of the city, immediately killing more than eighty thousand people and maiming...

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Salem on History | Atomic Bombing of Japan

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