Which was the first Japanese city bombed with an atomic bomb in 1945?
On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.
Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb.”
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jimbuc
Rameen Khan, Rameen Khan, You don't think that maybe the extreme muslims might be the problem. The fact that muslims will not assimilate to the American culture and want the American people to change our culture for them.
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May 11, 2018 10:01PM
Charlie Adamson
What a dilemma... Terrifying bomb with such nasty consequences, or the invasion of Japan, that would have been a carnage...!! of millions of Japanese and american lives...!!
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May 12, 2018 11:04AM
Don Merritt
No Pearl Harbor no Hiroshima
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Apr 5, 2019 7:01PM
Diana Newman
The devastating affects of the atomic bomb was felt for a very long time by Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Emperor Hirohito was correct in his description of the bomb.
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Mar 2, 2018 1:36PM
garyjeana
There is no glory in war or death from war.just tragedy and sadness.
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May 21, 2018 1:09AM
stormejohn
Rameen Khan, You should study some history and learn what the Japanese did to the Koreans, the Chinese, the Filipinos, and everyone else they overran at that time. You would learn what cruel really is. Ending that war as quickly as possible was in everybody's best interest even the Japanese.
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May 21, 2018 4:08AM
John Conley
We feared bombing Tokyo would leave Japan so vulnerable that China would have a clear path to conquering Korea, Japan, etc.
Hirohito could have easily prevented Nagasaki’s bombing. Was it pride that stopped him from surrendering? What?
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May 12, 2018 11:55PM
Deb Magee
I will add my name to any petition, send letters to the Congress, House of Representatives and world leaders to beg them to destroy every single nuclear device and ban all countries from having any. By the way, I got the question correct.
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Jan 28, 2020 5:28PM
Laura Herendeen
I've always heard that noone knows for sure what weapons will be used for WW3, but WW4 will be fought with sticks and rocks. 😔
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Jun 21, 2019 6:42PM
Orlee Buchanan
Lots of fun ... Thanks QuizzClub ....
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Oct 12, 2023 5:57AM
davelamx
The ending of WW2 proved the saying that "It is easy to start a war but it is very difficult to end a war". Someone in this thread pointed out the horrendous toll of the war if Japan hadn't been stopped when it was. Truth was that at the time of dropping of the atomic bombs, it wasn't clear how many Chinese were being killed by the japanese during that time. I've heard as many as several hundred thousand every few months and that is just that area.
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Sep 21, 2023 7:48PM
cgrhm
The human race is brilliant. And sick.
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Jul 11, 2023 6:49PM
Jackie
The effects of radiation are still felt today and shall be for thousands of years.
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Mar 2, 2022 3:17PM
lambros
no winners or losers for war... only victims
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Aug 18, 2021 3:41PM
Toto
Einstein had an idea of the effects and refused to work on it, as did some others. Good for them.
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Jan 4, 2021 10:00PM
deniseraz
When will the human race ever evolve??? We do not deserve this planet we live on, our greed will be our destruction.
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Oct 5, 2020 1:25PM
Quiz Taker
What is the Butterfly Effect....
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Jul 29, 2020 11:11PM
P,K,O,K,
Sad, Bloody Politics, And War
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May 24, 2020 5:44PM
Kathie
Such an EVIL WEAPON! I agree. This weapon should be dismantled all over the world. I know that's a pipe dream, someone is going to keep one or ten.. and so is another country.. so it will never happen.. its too powerful a weapon not to have in your arsenal
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Mar 30, 2020 3:14PM
donnalynn
Agree Don Merritt
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Mar 28, 2020 6:23PM
Marienne Litolff
Japan got the message, but what a way to deliver it!
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Mar 23, 2020 7:53PM
mellielair
John Conley, exactly right. The bombing of Nagasaki was because of Hirohito’s absolute refusal to surrender, to compromise, or to even consider any option which would cause Japan to stop fighting and end the war. But to keep fighting would have meant who knows how many more lives lost, how many more lives ruined beyond imagination. I wonder if Hirohito ever regretted his stubborn refusal to stop fighting when he still had the chance, given the historically unparalleled, tragic result that ultimately occurred instead. But if he did regret it he kept that thought to himself.
The bottom line: Hirohito’s intractable stubbornness was responsible for the deadly bombing of Hiroshima; he bears even more responsibility for the additional death and destruction which followed at Nagasaki, because of his continued refusal to cease fighting.
The whole debacle is an extremely sobering reminder of man’s intolerable cruelty to his fellow man. And it is only right to admit here that our country, the United States, certainly also bears way too much in the way of responsibility for the unimaginable horror of what happened. And will forever bear the shame as well.
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Jan 26, 2020 4:08AM
seanthumper
No country should have these kind of weapons! We should be past this barbarity!😭
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Jan 21, 2020 10:48PM
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