nagasaki

Hiroshima was attacked on 6th August and Nagasaki on the 9th, but the surrender wasn't announced until the 15th.

Otherwise instead instead of memorials at Hiroshima and Nagasaki they might be at Munich and Hamburg.

Are there going to be disasters like Hiroshima and Nagasaki thanks to these tools?

Case in point global death totals per second probably fit a very well defined curve, but Hiroshima and Nagasaki where well outside that curve.

Japan had been already utterly destroyed by that time, the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were far from the most deadly bombings at that time.

I could cite the infamous Dresden bombing, or the Hiroshima and Nagasaki ones.

I didn't interpret anything in the article that led me to think he believes (or believed at the time, even) that bombing Nagasaki was the right thing to do.

What worries me is how deeply dependent that peace has been on policymakers having living memories of how terrible World War 2 actually was, and of how Hiroshima and Nagasaki pointed to the possibility that World War 3 could be even worse.

It also bolsters the opinion that the use of the two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a show of force intended to establish a post-war dominance rather than that it was the only way Japan was going to be forced into submission.

Truman agreed with Stimson, and Kyoto was temporarily removed from the target list.[74] Groves attempted to restore Kyoto to the target list in July, but Stimson remained adamant.[75][76] On July 25, Nagasaki was put on the target list in place of Kyoto.[76] Orders for the attack were issued to General Carl Spaatz on July 25 under the signature of General Thomas T.

There is not much difference, beside "efficiency", between those and Nagasaki/Hiroshima.

" "The second example is 'Hiroshima and Nagasaki' noted earlier.

Turns out that the target for the second bomb was Kokura, and they did three bomb runs over it, but they then diverted to Nagasaki.[1] Reading the report - with the rationale for each of those other targets - and then the story of the Kokura raid (which ended up hitting Nagasaki) makes it very dramatically obvious how "contingent" everthing is.

"...and that action ended the war..." It is worth noting that there is considerable debate among historians about the degree to which the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings influenced the Japanese decision to surrender.

Nagasaki, by the way, was a last-minute addition due to weather at the planned target for the second bomb.

There wasn't any noticeable fallout in Japan after the explosions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

It rivals Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but we (in the US) almost never hear about it.