Dec 21, 2009

Salem on History | Atomic Bombs Destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Series: Great Events from History II: Ecology and the Environment Series
Categories: Science, Military History, Environmental Issues, Disasters
Subcategories: Violence, Nuclear Weapons, Power, Radiation, Ecology, Environment, Conservation, Bombs, Bombings, Explosions
Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, Asian History
Geographical Location: Japan
Date: August, 1945

Article abstract: The United States dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities with consequences, both human and environmental, of unprecedented proportions.

Summary of Event

At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, the first atomic weapon ever released over a human population exploded in the air above Hiroshima, Japan. The blast energy and destruction on a scale hitherto unknown and heralded the beginning of the atomic age. Three days later, on August 9, a second atom bomb was released over the city of Nagasaki at about 11:00 a.m. That weapon, originally...

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Salem on History | Atomic Bombs Destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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