The immediate effects of the attacks were devastating. In august 1945 during the final throes of world war ii america backed by the allies dropped two atom bombs on japan. The bomb nicknamed fat man was first planned to be dropped on another city kokura.
4 in long had the power of 22 kilotons of tnt and weighed 4 050 kg. It was 3 5 m. At 11 02 on 9 august 1945 the bomb which used plutonium 239 was dropped on the northern part of nagasaki by parachute.
Today japan s nuclear energy infrastructure makes it capable of. The japanese program to develop nuclear weapons was conducted during world war ii like the german nuclear weapons program it suffered from an array of problems and was ultimately unable to progress beyond the laboratory stage before the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki and the japanese surrender in august 1945. On august 6 1945 the united states dropped an atomic bomb on the city of hiroshima.
For a detailed timeline of the bombings please see hiroshima and nagasaki bombing timeline. The first two atomic bombs ever used were dropped on japan in early august 1945. A viral post on social media claims that since usa dropped a nuclear bomb on japan in 1945 it has become impossible for the usa to sell even a needle in the country because japanese citizens.
The united states detonated two nuclear weapons over the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki on august 6 and 9 1945 respectively with the consent of the united kingdom as required by the quebec agreement the two bombings killed between 129 000 and 226 000 people most of whom were civilians and remain the only uses of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.
