Why did the u.s. bomb hiroshima and nagasaki
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Hiroshima
City in Chūgoku, Japan
This article is about the city in Japan. For the prefecture with the same name where this city is located, see Hiroshima Prefecture. For other uses, see Hiroshima (disambiguation).
Designated city in Chūgoku, Japan
Hiroshima (広島市, Hiroshima-shi, , also,[2], [çiɾoɕima]ⓘ) is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. As of June 1, 2019[update], the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010.[3][4]Kazumi Matsui has been the city's mayor since April 2011. The Hiroshima metropolitan area is the second largest urban area in the Chugoku Region of Japan, following the Okayama metropolitan area.
Hiroshima was founded in 1589 as a castle town on the Ōta Riverdelta. Following the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Hiroshima rapidly transformed into a major urban center and industrial hub. In 1889, Hiroshima officially gained city status. The city was a center of militar
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The Manhattan Project
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Even before the outbreak of war in 1939, a group of American scientists—many of them refugees from fascist regimes in Europe—became concerned with nuclear weapons research being conducted in Nazi Germany. In 1940, the U.S. government began funding its own atomic weapons development program, which came under the joint responsibility of the Office of Scientific Research and Development and the War Department after the U.S. entry into World War II. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was tasked with spearheading the construction of the vast facilities necessary for the top-secret program, codenamed “The Manhattan Project” (for the engineering corps’ Manhattan district).
Over the next several years, the program’s scientists worked on producing the key materials for nuclear fission—uranium-235 and plutonium (Pu-239). They sent them to Los Alamos, New Mexico, where a team led by J. Robert Oppenheimer worked to turn these materials into a workable atomic bomb. Early on the morning of July 16, 1945, the Manhattan Project held its f
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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
August 1945 attacks in Japan during WWII
| Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | |
|---|---|
Atomic bomb mushroom clouds over Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right) | |
| Type | Nuclear bombing |
| Location | Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan 34°23′41″N132°27′17″E / 34.39472°N 132.45472°E / 34.39472; 132.45472 32°46′25″N129°51′48″E / 32.77361°N 129.86333°E / 32.77361; 129.86333 |
| Date | 6 and 9 August 1945 |
| Executed by | |
| Casualties | Hiroshima:
Nagasaki:
Total killed (by end of 1945): |
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The bombings killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and they remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Japan surrendered to
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