The
following photographs and videos demonstrate the horrible and
traumatizing events that civilians of Hiroshima and Nagasaki faced.
1.
The
above picture is Nagasaki, Japan before the United States dropped the
atomic bomb. The picture below the first is the city after the bomb was
dropped. You can see how the entire city was completely destroyed and
almost flattened.
2.
This
is a woman who was burned from the bombing of Hiroshima. The pattern of
her clothing was imprinted onto her skin from the powerful heat waves.
3.
"Within
a certain distance from the site of explosion, the heat was so intense
that practically everything was vaporized... in Hiroshima, all that was
left of some humans, sitting on stone beaches near the center of
explosion, was their outlines."
4.
"Beneath
the center of the explosion, temperatures were hot enough to melt
concrete and steel. Within seconds, 75,000 people had been killed or
fatally injured with 65% of the casualties nine years of age and
younger."
5.
This is the eyeball of an A-bomb victim who got an atomic bomb cataract, resulting in opacity near the center of the eyeball.
6.
This
is Chugoku Coal Distribution Control Co., which is 700 feet from ground
zero at Hiroshima. Despite its great distance, it was still destroyed.
7.
In
order to avoid a full ground invasion of Japan and massive loss of U.S.
lives, President Truman ordered the dropping of two atomic bombs,
killing over 200,000 Japanese people and hastening Japan’s surrender.
8.
Under
President Truman's directive, the U.S. Air Force dropped an atomic bomb
on the Japanese city of Hiroshima causing mass destruction and the loss
of many lives.
9.
The first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. Stalin invades Japan. http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=57A109EB-BD2A-4F6B-AA02-A13DB87E063E&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US
10.
After the United States dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki Japan, Japan surrenders.
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