The
Hiroshima bomb, known as "Little Boy" a reference to former President
Roosevelt, contained the equivalent of between 12 and 15,000 tons of TNT and
devastated an area of five square miles (13 square kilometres). More than 60%
of the buildings in the city were destroyed.
Official Japanese figures at the time put the death toll at 118,661 civilians. But later estimates suggest the final toll was about 140,000, of Hiroshima's 350,000 population, including military personnel and those who died later from radiation. Many have also suffered long-term sickness and disability.
Three days later, the United States launched a second, bigger atomic bomb against the city of Nagasaki. The device known as "Fat man", after Winston Churchill, weighed nearly 4,050 kg (nearly 9,000lb).
Official Japanese figures at the time put the death toll at 118,661 civilians. But later estimates suggest the final toll was about 140,000, of Hiroshima's 350,000 population, including military personnel and those who died later from radiation. Many have also suffered long-term sickness and disability.
Three days later, the United States launched a second, bigger atomic bomb against the city of Nagasaki. The device known as "Fat man", after Winston Churchill, weighed nearly 4,050 kg (nearly 9,000lb).
Nagasaki is surrounded by mountains and
because of this the level of destruction was confined to about 2.6 square miles
or 6.7 square kilometres. Nearly 74,000 were killed and a similar
number injured.
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The two atomic bombs, with the Soviet
declaration of war against Japan on 8 August 1945, finally left the Japanese no
choice.
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