The United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945. The first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, killing around 90,000-166,000 people. The second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9th, killing around 60,000-80,000 people. In response to the bombings and the Soviet declaration of war, Japan surrendered on August 15th, officially ending World War II. The bombings led Japan to adopt a policy forbidding nuclear weapons.

1. HIROSHIMA - JAPAN
August 1945

3. During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United
States conducted two atomic bombings against the cities
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. These two events
are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date.
Following a firebombing campaign that destroyed many
Japanese cities, the Allies prepared for a costly invasion
of Japan. The war in Europe ended when Nazi Germany
signed its instrument of surrender on 8 May, but the
Pacific War continued.
Together with the United Kingdom and the Republic of
China, the United States called for a surrender of Japan in
the Potsdam Declaration on 26 July 1945, threatening
Japan with "prompt and utter destruction". The Japanese
government ignored this ultimatum, and the United States
deployed two nuclear weapons developed by the
Manhattan Project. American soldiers dropped Little Boy
on the city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, followed by
Fat Man over Nagasaki on 9 August.

4. Within the first two to four months of
the bombings, the acute effects killed
90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima
and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki
On 15 August, six days after the
bombing of Nagasaki, Japan
announced its surrender to the Allies,
signing the Instrument of Surrender on
2 September, officially ending World
War II. The bombings led, in part, to
post-war Japan's adopting Three Non-
Nuclear Principles, forbidding the
nation from nuclear armament.

5. •The Hiroshima
explosion, recorded at
8:15am, August 6, 1945,
is seen on the remains
of a wristwatch found
in the ruins in this 1945
United Nations photo.

15. U.S. President Harry Truman, left, back from the Potsdam conference, is shown at
his White House desk with Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson in
Washington, D.C., Aug. 8, 1945. They discuss the atomic bomb that was dropped
on Hiroshima, Japan.

19. Nagasaki Type Bomb: This is the type of atomic bomb exploded over Nagasaki, Japan, in World War II, the
Atomic Energy Commission and Defense Department said in releasing this photo in Washington,
December 6, 1960. The weapon, known as the "Fat Man" type, is 60 inches in diameter and 128 inches
long. The second nuclear weapon to be detonated, it weighed about 10,000 pounds and had a yield
equivalent to approximately 20,000 tons of high explosive.

21. A massive column of
billowing smoke,
thousands of feet high,
mushrooms over the city
of Nagasaki, Japan, after
an atomic bomb was
dropped by the United
States on Aug. 9, 1945.
A B-29 plane delivered the
blast killing approximately
70,000 people, with
thousands dying later of
radiation effects. The
attack came three days
after the U.S. dropped the
world's first atomic bomb
on the Japanese city of
Hiroshima.

52. This young man, a victim of the second atomic bomb ever used in warfare, is seen as he is lying sick on a
mat, in Nagasaki, in late 1945. The bombing killed more than 70,000 people instantly, with ten thousands
dying later from effects of the radioactive fallout.

53. Maj. Thomas Ferebee, left, of Mocksville, N.C., and Capt. Kermit Beahan, right, of Houston, Texas,
talk at a hotel in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 6, 1946. Ferebee dropped the atomic bomb over
Hiroshima, and Beahan dropped the bomb over Nagasaki.

59. Commanding officer
and pilot Col. Paul W.
Tibbets Jr. waves from
the cockpit of his
bomber plane at its
base in Tinian, on
August
6, 1945, shortly before
take-off to drop the
first atomic bomb over
Hiroshima, Japan. The
day before Tibbets
named the B-29
Superfortress after his
mother "Enola Gay."

60. General Douglas MacArthur signs as Supreme Allied Commander during formal surrender
ceremonies on the USS MISSOURI in Tokyo Bay. Behind General MacArthur are Lieutenant
General Jonathan Wainwright and Lieutenant General A. E. Percival. 2. September 1945

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