USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the detonation of two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945 by the United States.

Detailed explanation-2: -It looked increasingly likely that the United States would have to commit itself to a land invasion, which could have claimed many American lives. Instead, the atomic bomb served as a tool to bring the war in the Pacific to a close sooner.

Detailed explanation-3: -The pilot who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The man who was chosen by the A.A.F. to usher in the Atomic Age is a dark-haired, twenty-nine-year-old full colonel named Paul W. Tibbets, Jr.

Detailed explanation-4: -On July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert, the United States detonated the world’s first nuclear weapons test explosion. Three weeks later, U.S. bombers carried out surprise atomic bomb attacks on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.