{"id":395089,"date":"2022-08-06T14:46:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T09:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.bullfrag.com\/these-are-the-most-devastating-images-of-the-effects-of-the-atomic-bomb-on-august-6-fayerwayer\/"},"modified":"2022-08-06T14:46:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T09:16:10","slug":"these-are-the-most-devastating-images-of-the-effects-of-the-atomic-bomb-on-august-6-fayerwayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/these-are-the-most-devastating-images-of-the-effects-of-the-atomic-bomb-on-august-6-fayerwayer\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the most devastating images of the effects of the atomic bomb on August 6 \u2013 FayerWayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJpaEX body-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/encyclopedia.ushmm.org\/content\/es\/article\/world-war-ii-in-depth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><b>Second World War <\/b><\/a>it was over in Europe and only Japan remained in the fight, following Germany&#8217;s surrender among the Axis powers.  The United States, which has lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Pacific since 1941, hoped to end the conflict.<b> In the sky, the Enola Gay plane was carrying a nuclear bomb: Little Boy.  Hiroshima was in the crosshairs.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJpaEX body-paragraph\">It was the <b>8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945<\/b> and the first of the atomic bombs was dropped by the United States.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 block-margin-bottom\">\n<div>\n<p><iframe title=\"Hiroshima Bombing Remembered By An American Survivor | TODAY\" width=\"788\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iV_1z5FOCvA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJpaEX body-paragraph\">In a matter of minutes, the bomb generated a heat wave of more than 4,000 \u00b0 C in a radius of about 4.5 kilometers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/mundo\/resources\/idt-67d6f259-8dcb-480e-94c3-b208e8f279a2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><b>according to the BBC. <\/b><\/a>The same day <b>between 50,000 and 100,000 people died, <\/b>product of the Little Boy explosion.  Thousands more were injured, and it is unknown how many had descendants with health problems from radiation.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"heading__StyledHeading-sc-5jxglz-0 yNUFb\"><b>The Manhattan Project and the Atomic Bomb<\/b><\/h3>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJpaEX body-paragraph\">the United States was working on <b>Manhattan Project, led by J. Robert Oppenheimer and with the initial support of Albert Einstein,<\/b> to get hold of a nuclear bomb before Germany did.  For months before the end of the war in Europe, the Americans knew that the Nazis could not count on a weapon of this caliber, but there would be no going back in the investigation.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article-body-image-container\"><picture class=\"Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fayerwayer.com\/resizer\/zd6Pojj0tfln2lhK73LtPEim9jY=\/1440x0\/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/metroworldnews\/QQMUQOW3URFJ7NUB3ONZPZ5OAM.jpg\" media=\"screen and (min-width: 992px)\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fayerwayer.com\/resizer\/LZ7Ov9C06u8UJJNHPHuXfSCvrSE=\/1024x0\/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/metroworldnews\/QQMUQOW3URFJ7NUB3ONZPZ5OAM.jpg\" media=\"screen and (min-width: 768px)\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fayerwayer.com\/resizer\/XG52S-WZNUAi01ViRBvI77DEfRI=\/768x0\/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/metroworldnews\/QQMUQOW3URFJ7NUB3ONZPZ5OAM.jpg\" media=\"screen and (min-width: 0px)\"\/><\/picture><figcaption>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-1gn0vty-0 iKkTQR image-metadata\"><span class=\"title\">The Hiroshima mushroom <\/span><span>Aerial photograph of the fungus formed in Hiroshima after the release of the Little Boy atomic bomb. <\/span>(Universal History Archive\/Universal Images Group via Getty)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJpaEX body-paragraph\">If it wasn&#8217;t used during the war, it would serve one way or another for the coming conflict with the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJpaEX body-paragraph\">After the death of <b>Franklin D Roosevelt <\/b>on April 12, 1945,<b> Harry S Truman<\/b> assumed the presidency of the United States.  It was up to him to put an end to World War II, approving the use of two atomic bombs on Japan in August of that year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article-body-image-container\"><picture class=\"Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fayerwayer.com\/resizer\/sUpslDA2WJNRMQj0ChO3XIo7UeA=\/1440x0\/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/metroworldnews\/TWAQCJRGZJDAZINJOFXEDORQ3Q.jpg\" media=\"screen and (min-width: 992px)\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fayerwayer.com\/resizer\/VoE0z0NpN_qyATRXKugEViFcAi4=\/1024x0\/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/metroworldnews\/TWAQCJRGZJDAZINJOFXEDORQ3Q.jpg\" media=\"screen and (min-width: 768px)\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fayerwayer.com\/resizer\/9uzj3FZy8eMxylUCZv4ZShK-jEY=\/768x0\/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/metroworldnews\/TWAQCJRGZJDAZINJOFXEDORQ3Q.jpg\" media=\"screen and (min-width: 0px)\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The devastation in Hiroshima after the dropping of the atomic bomb.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fayerwayer.com\/resizer\/sUpslDA2WJNRMQj0ChO3XIo7UeA=\/1440x0\/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/metroworldnews\/TWAQCJRGZJDAZINJOFXEDORQ3Q.jpg\" width=\"1440\" height=\"0\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\"><\/picture><figcaption>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-1gn0vty-0 iKkTQR image-metadata\"><span class=\"title\">Hiroshima Ruins <\/span><span>The devastation in Hiroshima after the dropping of the atomic bomb. <\/span>(Universal History Archive\/Universal Images Group via Getty)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJpaEX body-paragraph\">Despite the request for unconditional surrender, Japan remained in the fight.  It was the last stretch of the expansionism that developed in the 30s, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.es\/historia\/abci-crimenes-guerra-y-atrocidades-niponas-durante-segunda-guerra-mundial-201707250044_noticia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><b>with unspeakable crimes against Chinese and Korean civilians and military.<\/b><\/a>  What had started as a Japanese military parade ended in a useless resistance against the allies, with the civilian population as the main victim.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"heading__StyledHeading-sc-5jxglz-0 yNUFb\"><b>Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the two objectives of the United States<\/b><\/h3>\n<figure class=\"article-body-image-container\"><picture class=\"Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fayerwayer.com\/resizer\/sEyr45llXSL1LY6HCsl8y7PU4Vc=\/1440x0\/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/metroworldnews\/UY6HM36F3FCB5D4R7GIDWTZT3M.jpg\" media=\"screen and (min-width: 992px)\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fayerwayer.com\/resizer\/EtyuS4jWUmcSnt09I_wbKOW5mdI=\/1024x0\/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/metroworldnews\/UY6HM36F3FCB5D4R7GIDWTZT3M.jpg\" media=\"screen and (min-width: 768px)\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fayerwayer.com\/resizer\/IRI8wYyjNojczk7gFH_kER9GkFM=\/768x0\/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/metroworldnews\/UY6HM36F3FCB5D4R7GIDWTZT3M.jpg\" media=\"screen and (min-width: 0px)\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Japanese civilians suffered from the effect of radiation after the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fayerwayer.com\/resizer\/sEyr45llXSL1LY6HCsl8y7PU4Vc=\/1440x0\/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/metroworldnews\/UY6HM36F3FCB5D4R7GIDWTZT3M.jpg\" width=\"1440\" height=\"0\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\"><\/picture><figcaption>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-1gn0vty-0 iKkTQR image-metadata\"><span class=\"title\">atomic bomb victims <\/span><span>Japanese civilians suffered from the effect of radiation after the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. <\/span>(Prism by Dukas\/Universal Images Group via Getty)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJpaEX body-paragraph\">The Americans chose Hiroshima, they explain<b> Williamson Murray and Allan Millett in The War to Win <\/b>because the city had &#8220;a certain military value, because its T-shaped bridge was a perfect target and because, to his knowledge, there were no Allied prisoner-of-war camps in it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJpaEX body-paragraph\">On August 6, 1945, Colonel <b>Paul Tibbetts<\/b> piloted the Enola Gay, dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article-body-image-container\"><picture class=\"Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fayerwayer.com\/resizer\/hL5djI0IHziigMCtylidgvvY4X4=\/1440x0\/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/metroworldnews\/BA5INWCWFNHNLDTR3SKPVHP4XU.jpg\" media=\"screen and (min-width: 992px)\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fayerwayer.com\/resizer\/NlMfl_dXQx--lHFfch8HXrrncdU=\/1024x0\/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/metroworldnews\/BA5INWCWFNHNLDTR3SKPVHP4XU.jpg\" media=\"screen and (min-width: 768px)\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fayerwayer.com\/resizer\/Oh1QRjMQCKdnTi2V6jFY1XLGo_U=\/768x0\/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/metroworldnews\/BA5INWCWFNHNLDTR3SKPVHP4XU.jpg\" media=\"screen and (min-width: 0px)\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Japanese civilians suffered from the effect of radiation after the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fayerwayer.com\/resizer\/hL5djI0IHziigMCtylidgvvY4X4=\/1440x0\/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/metroworldnews\/BA5INWCWFNHNLDTR3SKPVHP4XU.jpg\" width=\"1440\" height=\"0\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\"><\/picture><figcaption>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-1gn0vty-0 iKkTQR image-metadata\"><span class=\"title\">atomic bomb victims <\/span><span>Japanese civilians suffered from the effect of radiation after the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. <\/span>(UniversalImagesGroup\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJpaEX body-paragraph\">Little Boy weighed 4,400 kilograms, <b>measuring 3 meters long and 70 centimeters wide, with a cylinder of uranium 235 that collided with the target, unleashing fission.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJpaEX body-paragraph\">Three days later, and in the face of the silence of the Japanese authorities, the Americans dropped a second bomb, this time on Nagasaki. <b>Between 39,000 and 80,000 people died.<\/b><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article-body-image-container\"><picture class=\"Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fayerwayer.com\/resizer\/jD1JUCRHF7qJ9jCpsGiDVzaRrHI=\/1440x0\/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/metroworldnews\/LMNF66LSL5FMXOUJXANJBJSU7I.jpg\" media=\"screen and (min-width: 992px)\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fayerwayer.com\/resizer\/cv_CutfaUDahtGYnVZioNXgi03s=\/1024x0\/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/metroworldnews\/LMNF66LSL5FMXOUJXANJBJSU7I.jpg\" media=\"screen and (min-width: 768px)\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fayerwayer.com\/resizer\/PiJe0TYFNCZyMuUVjUcWThHYWqA=\/768x0\/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/metroworldnews\/LMNF66LSL5FMXOUJXANJBJSU7I.jpg\" media=\"screen and (min-width: 0px)\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A stark image of a person who survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb, dropped on August 6, 1945.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fayerwayer.com\/resizer\/jD1JUCRHF7qJ9jCpsGiDVzaRrHI=\/1440x0\/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/metroworldnews\/LMNF66LSL5FMXOUJXANJBJSU7I.jpg\" width=\"1440\" height=\"0\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\"><\/picture><figcaption>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-1gn0vty-0 iKkTQR image-metadata\"><span class=\"title\">Atomic bomb survivor in Hiroshima <\/span><span>A stark image of a person who survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb, dropped on August 6, 1945. <\/span>(The Asahi Shimbun\/The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Imag)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJpaEX body-paragraph\">Japan would surrender on August 14, 1945, signing its capitulation on September 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJpaEX body-paragraph\">In two days, between 129,000 and 246,000 Japanese were killed by the two atomic bombs. <b>After this, humanity only remained in suspense in the face of a new mortality of that order,<\/b> and although the Americans, Soviets and other powers developed nuclear weapons, they have not used them since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-xb1qmn-0 eJpaEX body-paragraph\">For the moments.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article-body-image-container\"><picture class=\"Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fayerwayer.com\/resizer\/ApGMO7yXcewwElIfra4OC_m09nQ=\/1440x0\/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/metroworldnews\/IYSQV4PYUJBHBA6CILHBNEDNLA.jpg\" media=\"screen and (min-width: 992px)\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fayerwayer.com\/resizer\/m0Gv-G-XvMzQL4ooDd9O53xnZnQ=\/1024x0\/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/metroworldnews\/IYSQV4PYUJBHBA6CILHBNEDNLA.jpg\" media=\"screen and (min-width: 768px)\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fayerwayer.com\/resizer\/7dSw11wx6IwbbhkED9PApkJSLQE=\/768x0\/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/metroworldnews\/IYSQV4PYUJBHBA6CILHBNEDNLA.jpg\" media=\"screen and (min-width: 0px)\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"This is how a cinema was left after the launch of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, on August 6, 1945.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fayerwayer.com\/resizer\/ApGMO7yXcewwElIfra4OC_m09nQ=\/1440x0\/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/metroworldnews\/IYSQV4PYUJBHBA6CILHBNEDNLA.jpg\" width=\"1440\" height=\"0\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\"><\/picture><figcaption>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-1gn0vty-0 iKkTQR image-metadata\"><span class=\"title\">The remains of a cinema in Hiroshima <\/span><span>This is how a cinema was left after the launch of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, on August 6, 1945. <\/span>(Popperfoto\/Popperfoto via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Second World War it was over in Europe and only Japan remained in the fight, following Germany&#8217;s surrender among the Axis powers. The United States, which has lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Pacific since 1941, hoped to end the conflict. 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