Nuclear pollution in Hiroshima and Nagasaki презентация

1945 August 6 and 9, the US dropped 2 bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

only in the history of mankind two examples of the combat use of nuclear weapons. Carried out by the Armed forces of the United States in the final stage of the Second world war to expedite the surrender of Japan in the Pacific theater of world war II

On the morning of 6 August 1945 an American bomber dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima atomic bomb "Little Boy"

Three days later, on August 9, 1945, the atomic bomb "Fat Man"was dropped on Nagasaki

The total number of victims ranged from 90 to 166 thousand people in Hiroshima and from 60 to 80 thousand people in Nagasaki.

The shock of the atomic bombings the United States had a profound impact on the Prime Minister of Japan and the Minister of foreign Affairs of Japan, which agreed to the fact that the Japanese government should stop the war.

August 15, 1945 Japan announced its surrender