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Post by Winter_King on Aug 6, 2020 13:30:00 GMT
The U.S. Army Air Force bomber Enola Gay dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan killing about 70,000 people instantly.  |
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Post by politicidal on Aug 6, 2020 16:14:35 GMT
Apparently more were planned to be dropped.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Aug 6, 2020 17:50:08 GMT
In contrast to what many people think the Atomic bomb was not the sole reason Japan surrender, the Soviet attack in Manchuria was just as big of a reason for the surrender, and if Soviet had allowed the Japanese to keep the Emperor its likely that the Japanese would have surrendered to the Soviets and not the Americans.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Aug 6, 2020 18:05:29 GMT
In contrast to what many people think the Atomic bomb was not the sole reason Japan surrender, the Soviet attack in Manchuria was just as big of a reason for the surrender, and if Soviet had allowed the Japanese to keep the Emperor its likely that the Japanese would have surrendered to the Soviets and not the Americans. The Yalta agreements did allow the Japanese to surrender to the Soviets no more than Germany would be allowed to surrender just to the Western Allies. And the bombs were the reason Hirohito decided to buck tradition and order the surrender. The Soviet invasion just took out Japan's last hope for a negotiated peace. Japan knew the Red Army would cut through the Kwangtung Army like warm butter. They gutted it to strengthen the defenses of he Home Islands
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Post by Winter_King on Aug 7, 2020 8:44:44 GMT
In contrast to what many people think the Atomic bomb was not the sole reason Japan surrender, the Soviet attack in Manchuria was just as big of a reason for the surrender, and if Soviet had allowed the Japanese to keep the Emperor its likely that the Japanese would have surrendered to the Soviets and not the Americans. That has been debated by historians since the events and there is no clear answer. Hirohito explicitly mentions the atomic bomb as a reason for surrendering and doesn't mention the Soviet attack.
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Post by Hnefahogg on Aug 7, 2020 11:18:11 GMT
After the success of the bombs, Prof Feynman described celebrations as having taken place at the New Mexico headquarters. He said: “There was a very considerable elation. “Quite a lot of parties and people got drunk. “It would make a tremendously interesting contrast of what was going on is Los Alamos at the same time of what was going on in Hiroshima.” Deeply disturbed by the mass bloodshed he had enabled, the atomic bomb would stay with Prof Feynman for the rest of his life. www.express.co.uk/news/world/1319334/hiroshima-atomic-bomb-nagasaki-japan-world-war-2-us-military-history-asia-news-spt |
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