Current picture of Nagasaki, Japan.
Nagasaki
The first bomb dropped on Hiroshima did not pull the Japanese into immediate surrender. Japanese warriors believed in honor, it was one of the most important things they believed. They thought it was a discrase to die in battle by their opponent. Japanese have avoided judging what is good or evil since ancient times, by trying to equal the "wrong" with disobeying the social order or going against
authority. This explains why the ancient samurai warriors could take their lives to their god without having to think of how unmoral their actions were. They would rather end their own lives then letting the enemy take their own. (http://www.wa-pedia.com/forum/culture-shock-137/japanese-morals-10167/ ). It had to take a second nuclear bomb to force the Japanese to finally give up.
On August 9, three days after the first bomb, Charles Sweeney, who flew the first B-29 bomber, flew another B-29 bomber into Japan. His original target was the city of Kokura, however, thick clouds covered the city making the bomb too unclear to drop. Driven to his secondary target, Charles flew to the city of Nagasaki and dropped "fat boy", a 10,000 pound plutonium bomb, even more powerful than the first bomb dropped on Hiroshima, at 11:02 in the morning. It was estimated to produce a 22 kiloton blast, Due to the hilly geography of the cities location, it drastically reduced the bombs explosion to about 2.6 miles.(History.com/"littleboy"and"fatman")
The first bomb dropped on Hiroshima did not pull the Japanese into immediate surrender. Japanese warriors believed in honor, it was one of the most important things they believed. They thought it was a discrase to die in battle by their opponent. Japanese have avoided judging what is good or evil since ancient times, by trying to equal the "wrong" with disobeying the social order or going against
authority. This explains why the ancient samurai warriors could take their lives to their god without having to think of how unmoral their actions were. They would rather end their own lives then letting the enemy take their own. (http://www.wa-pedia.com/forum/culture-shock-137/japanese-morals-10167/ ). It had to take a second nuclear bomb to force the Japanese to finally give up.
On August 9, three days after the first bomb, Charles Sweeney, who flew the first B-29 bomber, flew another B-29 bomber into Japan. His original target was the city of Kokura, however, thick clouds covered the city making the bomb too unclear to drop. Driven to his secondary target, Charles flew to the city of Nagasaki and dropped "fat boy", a 10,000 pound plutonium bomb, even more powerful than the first bomb dropped on Hiroshima, at 11:02 in the morning. It was estimated to produce a 22 kiloton blast, Due to the hilly geography of the cities location, it drastically reduced the bombs explosion to about 2.6 miles.(History.com/"littleboy"and"fatman")
American Citizens celebrating Victory Japan Day
The Surrender
At noon on August 15, 1945, Hirohito(Emperor of Japan) declared his countries surrender from a radio broadcast. V-J Day or Victory Japan Day broke out in America and other allied nations and celebrations spread out all over the nation. The surrender agreement was signed on September 2, on the American aircraft carrier "Missouri" in Tokyo Bay.(History.com/"littleboy"and"fatman")
At noon on August 15, 1945, Hirohito(Emperor of Japan) declared his countries surrender from a radio broadcast. V-J Day or Victory Japan Day broke out in America and other allied nations and celebrations spread out all over the nation. The surrender agreement was signed on September 2, on the American aircraft carrier "Missouri" in Tokyo Bay.(History.com/"littleboy"and"fatman")
A Nagasaki citizen burned by the blast, this was a less severe injury than most.
Survivors
Fujie Urata Matsumoto, a survivor of the Nagasaki blast describes one scene: "The pumpkin field in front of the house was blown clean. Nothing was left of the whole thick crop, except that in place of the pumpkins there was a woman's head. I looked at the face to see if I knew her. It was a woman of about forty. She must have been from another part of town -- I had never seen her around here. A gold tooth gleamed in the wide-open mouth. A handful of singed hair hung down from the left temple over her cheek, dangling in her mouth. Her eyelids were drawn up, showing black holes where the eyes had been burned out. . . . She had probably looked square into the flash and gotten her eyeballs burned." (http://history1900s.about.com/od/worldwarii/a/hiroshima_2.htm)
Fujie Urata Matsumoto, a survivor of the Nagasaki blast describes one scene: "The pumpkin field in front of the house was blown clean. Nothing was left of the whole thick crop, except that in place of the pumpkins there was a woman's head. I looked at the face to see if I knew her. It was a woman of about forty. She must have been from another part of town -- I had never seen her around here. A gold tooth gleamed in the wide-open mouth. A handful of singed hair hung down from the left temple over her cheek, dangling in her mouth. Her eyelids were drawn up, showing black holes where the eyes had been burned out. . . . She had probably looked square into the flash and gotten her eyeballs burned." (http://history1900s.about.com/od/worldwarii/a/hiroshima_2.htm)