WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The aerial bombings together killed between 129, 000 and 226, 000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.

Detailed explanation-2: -The U.S. wanted to force a quick surrender by the Japanese to reduce the number of American lives lost. In addition, it was secretly decided at the Yalta Summit in February 1945 that the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan.

Detailed explanation-3: -With the primary target unavailable, the secondary target, the Mitsubishi Torpedo Plant at Nagasaki was chosen. The bomb exploded at 11:02 a.m. over the narrow Urakami Valley northwest of downtown Nagasaki.

Detailed explanation-4: -The world’s first nuclear explosion occurred on July 16, 1945, when a plutonium implosion device was tested at a site located 210 miles south of Los Alamos, New Mexico, on the plains of the Alamogordo Bombing Range, known as the Jornada del Muerto. The code name for the test was “Trinity."

Detailed explanation-5: -The bomb exploded with the force of more than 15, 000 tons of TNT directly over a surgical clinic, 500 feet from the Aioi Bridge.