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August 9, 1945
Japan
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Nagasaki
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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/
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/
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/
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/
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/
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
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/
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-
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
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
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
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
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
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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