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U.S. air raids continued against Japan until the day of its surrender in the Pacific War because Tokyo was reluctant to accept the Potsdam Declaration over the emperor’s status, according to researcher Yozo Kudo.

World War II - World War II - Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Atomic Bombs: On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima: the combined heat and blast pulverized everything in the explosions immediate vicinity and immediately killed some 70,000 people (the death toll passed 100,000 by the end of the year). A second bomb, dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, killed between 35,000 and 40,000 people, injured a like number, and devastated 1.8 square miles.

THE Chinese Embassy in Manila said the United States deployed military planes and warships in the West Philippine Sea on August 5, when Chinese Coast Guard fired water cannons at two Philippine wooden-hulled vessels and Philippine Coast Guard ships were on their way to Ayungin Shoal. Chinese Embassy Deputy Chief…

The bombs have been subject to prolific controversy, misinformation, and analysis, and their impact on both history and media cannot be understated.

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are widely regarded as the decisive events that ended World War II in the Pacific. However, few people know that the US almost failed to achieve its goal of forcing Japan to surrender, even after unleashing the most terrible weapons in history. https://youtu.be/96yhS_lEVXg https://youtu.be/96yhS_lEVXg On August 6, 1945,…

Enduring mythology about these mass civilian slaughters warps thinking about U.S. militarism, writes Brian McGlinchey. By Brian McGlinchey starkrealities.substack.com The anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki present an opportunity to demolish a cornerstone myth of

The film Oppenheimer has made a lot of noise in the run-up to the anniversaries this month of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — and not just from Christopher Nolan’s bombastic sound...

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Seventy-eight years ago, the Pacific War was still undecided, even though the Japanese Army was falling back on all fronts while the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Army Air Forces

The bombing was the first-ever use of nuclear weapons in war and was followed three days later by a second nuclear bomb on Nagasaki.