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Wednesday 28th September 2022 Edition #1

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: how

was the "hell" in which tens of
thousands died from atomic
” Image title: The Little Boy bomb caused devastation in Hiroshima.

bombs...
MIRJAM NILSSON
On August 6 and 9, respectively, 1945, during the
final stage of World War II, the United States
dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped its
first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The
bomb was known as "Little Boy", a uranium gun-
type bomb that exploded with about thirteen
kilotons of force. At the time of the bombing,
Hiroshima was home to 280,000-290,000
civilians as well as 43,000 soldiers. Between
90,000 and 166,000 people are believed to have
died from the bomb in the four-month period
following the explosion.
Breaking News
SAMUEL SERRANO NEGRETE
Hiroshima And Nagasaki
The United States and Japan had been
fighting for four years in the Pacific War,
one of the biggest scenes of World War II.
US President Harry Truman issued an
ultimatum against the Japanese,
demanding unconditional surrender,
otherwise "swift and utter destruction"
awaited them, yet Truman did not
mention the use of nuclear bombs. The
bombs were part of the arsenal that the
US had ready as part of its strategy to
settle the conflict.

On July 16, the US had successfully tested

Three days after the United States dropped an the Trinity bomb, the first nuclear weapon
atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a second atomic to be detonated in the world.
bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9 – a
21-kiloton plutonium device known as "Fat Man.”
On the day of the bombing, an estimated 263,000
were in Nagasaki, including 240,000 Japanese
residents, 9,000 Japanese soldiers, and 400
prisoners of war.

Image title: A 6 kilometer tall column rises from ground zero over
the ruins of the city of Hiroshima

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28th September 2022 NEWSLETTER Edition #1

Image title: La devastación que causaron las bombas de Hiroshima y Nagasaki

Michael Gordin, a historian specializing in the

physical sciences at Princeton University and co- Breaking News
editor of the book "The Hiroshima Era,"
SAMUEL SERRANO NEGRETE
explained to the BBC that "As soon as they knew
the nuclear bomb would work, it was assumed
they would use it." Hiroshima was the first target chosen, it was
The reasons that led the US to drop the atomic the site of a military base and had not been
bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still the bombed before, so it was a good place to feel
subject of debate, but the consequences are the effects of the bomb.
evident to this day.
The Enola Gay, a B-29 bomber
The devastation caused by piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets,
the Hiroshima and was flying over Hiroshima at an
Nagasaki bombs altitude of about 9.5 km when
unleashed, until today, an it released the Little Boy bomb,
intense debate on whether which exploded in mid-air,
an attack of such about 600 meters above the
magnitude on the civilian ground.
population was necessary. "At 8:14 it was a sunny day, at
Image title: The Nagasaki bomb was more
8:15 it was hell," describes
It is noteworthy that since powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima Kathleen Sullivan, director of
then no other country has three days earlier. Hibakusha Stories
dared to use an atomic
bomb in an armed conflict.
On August 14, 1945, Japan signed the Act of Nagasaki was not on the list of priority targets. Its
Surrender requested by the United States, rugged topography and proximity to an Allied
marking the end of a six-year war, started byprisoner-of-war camp made it a secondary
Nazi Germany with the invasion of Poland. target. The crew had orders to visually choose
the target that would maximize the explosive
On May 25, 2016, former President Barack range of the bomb, so they diverted to Nagasaki.
Obama became the first US president to visit
Japan after the end of World War II. The Bockscar bomber, a B-29 piloted by Major
Charles Sweeney, dropped the Fat Man bomb,
which exploded 500 meters above the ground.

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