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August 9, 1945

 

Japan

 

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

 

Nagasaki

 

 

warning: graphic / distressing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The HISTORY Channel Canada    2019

 

 

 

 

HISTORY OF | The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Video    The HISTORY® Channel Canada    6 August 2019

Some content in this video may be graphic to some viewers.

Today marks the 74th anniversary

of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

 

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZSENcK-en4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Controversy over the decision

to drop atomic bombs on Japan still lingers

WP    7 August 2017

 

 

 

 

Controversy over the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan still lingers

Video    Washington Post    7 August 2017

 

More than 70 years

after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,

the question of whether the decision was the right one is still being asked.

 

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX63b1sJto

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Atomic bombing of Nagasaki    August 9, 1945
 

 

 

 

Second atomic bomb of World War II explodes over Nagasaki (1945)

Atom bomb "Fat Man" destroys Nagasaki

as viewed from a B-29 Superfortress accompanying the Bockscar

flown by Major Charles W.

British Pathé

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u-XoaU4ScA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harold Melvin Agnew    USA    1921-2013

 

 

 

 

Harold M. Agnew, fourth from left,

with other group leaders involved in the atomic bomb project.

 

He later flew on the first atomic strike against Japan

and helped perfect the hydrogen bomb.

 

Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis

 

Harold M. Agnew,

Physicist Present at Birth of the Nuclear Age,

Dies at 92

NYT

October 1, 2013

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/
us/harold-m-agnew-physicist-present-at-birth-of-the-nuclear-age-dies-at-92.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

last surviving major figure

to have been present

at the birth of the nuclear age

— a physicist who helped build

the world’s first reactor and atomic bombs,

flew on the first atomic strike against Japan,

filmed the mushroom cloud,

helped perfect the hydrogen bomb

and led the Los Alamos National Laboratory

at the height of the cold war

 

(...)

 

Dr. Agnew was no giant of discovery,

but he was ingenious technically

and wielded great influence for decades

as a presidential adviser

and a gregarious hawk,

as restless and unpredictable

as the tumultuous age he helped define.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/
us/harold-m-agnew-physicist-present-at-birth-of-the-nuclear-age-
dies-at-92.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/
us/harold-m-agnew-physicist-present-at-birth-of-the-nuclear-age-
dies-at-92.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1945

 

The surrender of the Empire of Japan

(...)

was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August

and formally signed on 2 September 1945.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan

 

 

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/
japan-surrenders

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/
surrender-of-japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Surrender_of_Japan

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/
books/review/a-continent-erupts-ronald-h-spector.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bones scattered in September 1945

on a school playground,

less than a mile from ground zero.

 

Anglonautes' note : find exact location.

 

Photograph: Teiji Nihei

 

After Atomic Bombings,

These Photographers Woked Under Mushroom Clouds

A new book of photos

documents the human impact of the bombing that ended World War II,

- and challenges a common American misperception of the destruction

in japan

NYT

August 6, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06
/world/asia/hiroshima-nagasaki-japan-photos.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A child received treatment at a temporary hospital

set up at Shin Kozen Elementary School in Nagasaki

after the city’s atomic bombing on Aug. 9, 1945,

three days after the leveling of Hiroshima.

 

Photograph: Yasuo Tomishige

The Asahi Shimbun, via Getty Images

 

The Black Reporter Who Exposed a Lie About the Atom Bomb

Charles H. Loeb defied the American military’s denials and propaganda

to show how deadly radiation from the strike on Hiroshima

sickened and killed.

NYT

Aug. 9, 2021    5:00 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/
science/charles-loeb-atomic-bomb.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After the atom bomb: Nagasaki in ruins.

 

Photograph: Rex

 

Remembering Nagasaki: the man who walked through hell

O

Sunday 26 July 2015    08.00 BST

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/26/nagasaki-
man-who-walked-through-hell-jan-bras

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the background,

a Roman Catholic cathedral on a hill in Nagasaki.

Ca. 1945.

 

77-AEC-52-4459.

Pictures of World War II > Japan

US National Archives

http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/images/ww2-165.jpg

http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/#japan2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A family cremating its dead in Nagasaki

in September 1945.

 

Photograph: Eiichi Matsumoto

 

After Atomic Bombings,

These Photographers Woked Under Mushroom Clouds

A new book of photos

documents the human impact of the bombing that ended World War II,

- and challenges a common American misperception of the destruction

in Japan

NYT

August 6, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06
/world/asia/hiroshima-nagasaki-japan-photos.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A man in Nagasaki searching for a doctor

to treat his wounded baby the day after the bombing.

 

Photograph: Yosuke Yamahata,

courtesy Shogo Yamahata

 

After Atomic Bombings,

These Photographers Woked Under Mushroom Clouds

A new book of photos

documents the human impact of the bombing that ended World War II,

- and challenges a common American misperception of the destruction

in japan

NYT

August 6, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06
/world/asia/hiroshima-nagasaki-japan-photos.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Around 2:00 p.m. on Aug. 10.

 

The atomic bomb had exploded

about a third of a mile above this location,

the Matsuyama-machi intersection.

 

The remains of a private school is in the rear at right.

 

The chimney, center rear,

was part of the Mitsubishi Nagasaki Steel Works.

 

Photograph: Yosuke Yamahata,

courtesy Shogo Yamahata

 

After Atomic Bombings,

These Photographers Woked Under Mushroom Clouds

A new book of photos

documents the human impact of the bombing that ended World War II,

- and challenges a common American misperception of the destruction

in japan

NYT

August 6, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06
/world/asia/hiroshima-nagasaki-japan-photos.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The mushroom cloud on Aug. 9,

15 minutes after the explosion.

 

Photograph: Hiromichi Matsuda,

courtesy Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum

 

After Atomic Bombings,

These Photographers Woked Under Mushroom Clouds

A new book of photos

documents the human impact of the bombing that ended World War II,

- and challenges a common American misperception of the destruction

in japan

NYT

August 6, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06
/world/asia/hiroshima-nagasaki-japan-photos.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A young woman who survived the explosion at Minami-Ohashi,

a mile south of ground zero, being pulled on Oct. 4

by her aunt on a cart over rubble-covered roads

to Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital.

 

Photograph: Shunkichi Kikuchi,

courtesy Harumi Tago

 

After Atomic Bombings,

These Photographers Woked Under Mushroom Clouds

A new book of photos

documents the human impact of the bombing

that ended World War II,

- and challenges a common American misperception

of the destruction in japan

NYT

August 6, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06
/world/asia/hiroshima-nagasaki-japan-photos.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II

 

A Collection of Primary Sources

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 162

Edited by William Burr - 202/994-7000

Posted - August 5, 2005

Updated - April 27, 2007

 

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/index.htm 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Last Kamikaze

G    11 August 2015

 

 

 

 

The Last Kamikaze

Video    Guardian Features    The Guardian    11 August 2015

 

The last kamikaze:

'I felt the blood was draining from my face'

 

‘It sounds strange,

but we were congratulating each other for being selected’

for the special suicide attack unit.

 

‘When I knew we had lost the war ...

the thought going through my mind

was I had missed my chance to die ...

and be remembered in infinite glory.’

 

Two Japanese veterans

share memories of the second world war

and the aftermath of the atomic bomb attack

on Hiroshima.

 

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3qoNE4XwhM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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