It lists the following targets in order of priority: Hiroshima, Kokura, Niigata, and Nagasaki.
Along the way, the ratio of Japanese to American casualties dropped from five to one in the Philippines to two to
The explicit reason was to swiftly end the war with Japan.
While the United States began conventional bombing of Japan as early
The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
But until Japan's final surrender offer, five days after the Nagasaki
The Soviet Union had entered the war against Japan, and the atomic bomb could be read as a ...
The document below is the order to attack Japanese cities with atomic bombs. In it, the Acting Army Chief of Staff, Thomas Handy, orders Commanding General ...
The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, brought the United States officially into World War II. In the surprise attack, Japan sunk several ...
On August 6, 1945, the United States changed the face of warfare when it dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Here are the events ...