Deaths By The Atomic Bomb
The first atomic bomb, nicknamed "Little Boy", exploded in Hiroshima in August 6, 1945, and 3 days later "Fat Man" exploded in Nagasaki killing more than 100,000 people in the two cities. The Japanese citizens voiced their rebellious nature by training special troops that strapped bombs on their planes, and also trained suicide bombers American forces. Japan surrendered on August 10, 1945 to put an end to World War II.
Some facts about the cases that involves the Japanese:
- The “Peace Party” from Japan had been urging surrender since January 1945.
- The obstacle of surrendering is the “unconditional surrender” which implied abolishing the emperor, also implies that Americans dislike the society of Japan.
- However, Japan surrender with the emperor preserved, because the US guarantee that emperor would remain.
- From Admiral Leahy, Minutes of Meeting June 18,1945, “ … Admiral Leahy said that he could not agree with those who said to him that unless we obtain the unconditional surrender of the Japanese that we will have lost the war. He feared no motion from Japan in the foreseeable future, even if we were unsuccessful in forcing the unconditional surrender. What he did fear was that our insistence on the unconditional surrender would result only in making the Japanese desperate and thereby increase our casualty lists. He did not think that this was at all necessary.
- Even though Truman stated that a million Americans would die by invading Japan, none of Truman’s advisers agreed with him.
"Paying The Price"
The attack of pearl harbor the U.S. took casualties of 1744 from the navy and 99 from the marines KIA, the navy took 2 prisoners. Later 19 died from wounds.
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The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had a total estimate of 200,000 deaths until december 1945.
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