(Above: Hiroshima Peace Memorial)
“Trinity” was the code name of the first nuclear weapons test of an atomic bomb. This test was conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945. The small black dots on the horizon are trees.
Then, on August 6, 1945…Hiroshima.
Original documents relating to the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Photograph taken by the navigator aboard the Enola Gay of the bombing of Hiroshima
The day after: Truman speaks on the use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
On August 9, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Japan surrendered to the Allies on August 14. On August 28 “150 U.S. personnel flew to Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture. They were followed by USS Missouri, whose accompanying vessels landed the 4th Marine Division on the southern coast of Kanagawa. Other Allied personnel followed.” Japan formally surrendered on board the USS Missouri n September 2, 1945. The war had begun on September 1, 1939.
The Second World War, which had claimed up to 78 million lives, war now over.
