HIROSHIMA - JAPAN

August 1945

During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted two atomic bombings against the cities

of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. These two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date.

Following a firebombing campaign that destroyed many Japanese cities, the Allies prepared for a costly invasion of Japan. The war in Europe ended when Nazi Germany

signed its instrument of surrender on 8 May, but the Pacific War continued.

Together with the United Kingdom and the Republic of China, the United States called for a surrender of Japan in

the Potsdam Declaration on 26 July 1945, threatening Japan with "prompt and utter destruction". The Japanese government ignored this ultimatum, and the United States

deployed two nuclear weapons developed by the Manhattan Project. American soldiers dropped Little Boy on the city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, followed by

Fat Man over Nagasaki on 9 August.

Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima

and 60,000–80,000 in NagasakiOn 15 August, six days after the

bombing of Nagasaki, Japan announced its surrender to the Allies,

signing the Instrument of Surrender on 2 September, officially ending World War II. The bombings led, in part, to

post-war Japan's adopting Three Non-Nuclear Principles, forbidding the nation from nuclear armament.

•The Hiroshima explosion, recorded at

8:15am, August 6, 1945, is seen on the

remains of a wristwatch found in the

ruins in this 1945 United Nations photo.

U.S. President Harry Truman, left, back from the Potsdam conference, is shown at his White House desk with Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson in Washington,

D.C., Aug. 8, 1945. They discuss the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.

Nagasaki Type Bomb: This is the type of atomic bomb exploded over Nagasaki, Japan, in World War II, the Atomic Energy Commission and Defense Department said in releasing this photo in Washington, December 6, 1960. The weapon, known as the "Fat Man" type, is 60 inches in diameter and 128 inches

long. The second nuclear weapon to be detonated, it weighed about 10,000 pounds and had a yield equivalent to approximately 20,000 tons of high explosive.

A massive column of billowing smoke,

thousands of feet high, mushrooms over the city of Nagasaki, Japan, after

an atomic bomb was dropped by the United States on Aug. 9, 1945.

A B-29 plane delivered the blast killing approximately

70,000 people, with thousands dying later of

radiation effects. The attack came three days

after the U.S. dropped the world's first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of

Hiroshima.

This young man, a victim of the second atomic bomb ever used in warfare, is seen as he is lying sick on a mat, in Nagasaki, in late 1945. The bombing killed more than 70,000 people instantly, with ten thousands

dying later from effects of the radioactive fallout.

Maj. Thomas Ferebee, left, of Mocksville, N.C., and Capt. Kermit Beahan, right, of Houston, Texas, talk at a hotel in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 6, 1946. Ferebee dropped the atomic bomb

over Hiroshima, and Beahan dropped the bomb over Nagasaki.

Commanding officer and pilot Col. Paul W.

Tibbets Jr. waves from the cockpit of his

bomber plane at its base in Tinian, on

August 6, 1945, shortly before take-off

to drop the first atomic bomb over

Hiroshima, Japan. The day before Tibbets

named the B-29 Superfortress after his mother "Enola Gay."

General Douglas MacArthur signs as Supreme Allied Commander during formal surrender ceremonies on the USS MISSOURI in Tokyo Bay. Behind General MacArthur are Lieutenant

General Jonathan Wainwright and Lieutenant General A. E. Percival. 2. September 1945

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