Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The United States Army Air Force dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the mornings of August 6 and August 9, 1945 during World War II. The goal was to secure the unconditional surrender of Japan. At least 120,000 people died immediately from the two attacks combined, and many more would die in years to come from the effects of nuclear radiation. About 95% of the casualties were civilians. Japan sent notice of its unconditional surrender to the Allies on August 15, a week after the bombings. These bombings were the first and only nuclear attacks in world history. ...more on Wikipedia about "Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki"

Barefoot Gen, known in Japan as Hadashi no Gen (はだしのゲン) is a manga novel written and illustrated by Keiji Nakazawa. It takes place in 1945 in and around Hiroshima, Japan, where the six-year-old boy Gen lives with his family. After Hiroshima is destroyed by atomic bombing, Gen and other survivors are left to deal with the aftermath. The story is loosely based on Nakazawa's own experience as a Hiroshima survivor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Barefoot Gen"

Black Rain is the title of several works of fiction. ...more on Wikipedia about "Black Rain"

Black Rain (黒い雨; "black rain", ISBN 087011364X) is a novel by the Japanese author Ibuse Masuji, first published in 1965 and translated to English in 1966. ...more on Wikipedia about "Black Rain (novel)"

BOCKS CAR, (occasionally Bock's Car or Bocks Car) was the name of the U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 bomber (Serial Number 44-27297) which dropped the second nuclear weapon ever used in warfare, on Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945. The weapon was known as " Fat Man". On the day of the attack Bockscar was manned by the crew of " The Great Artiste" and was commanded by Major Charles W. Sweeney of Massachusetts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bockscar"

Claude Robert Eatherly (born in Texas-died 1978) was the pilot of the weather reconnaissance aircraft Straight Flush used to aid in the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. ...more on Wikipedia about "Claude Eatherly"

Enola Gay is a B-29 Superfortress bomber of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) that dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare (" Little Boy") on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945, just before the end of World War II. Because of its role in the atomic bombings of Japan, its name has been synonymous with controversy over the bombings themselves, and it gained additional national attention in 1994 after controversy over the bombings resulted in an exhibit in which the plane was displayed at the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. was closed. In 2003, the Enola Gay became again viewable to the public at the new Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center annex of the N.A.S.M. at Dulles International Airport in Virginia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Enola Gay"

"Fat-Man" was the codename of the atomic weapon which was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan by the United States, on August 9, 1945. It was the second of the two nuclear weapons to be used in warfare. The name also refers more generically to the early designs of U.S. weapons based on the "Fat Man" type. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fat Man"

Frederick C. Bock ( 1918- 2000) was a WWII pilot who took part to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945 with The Great Artiste. The B-29 was used for scientific measurements of the effects caused by the nuclear weapon. The bomber which actually dropped Fat Man was called Bockscar as it was usually flown by Frederick Bock. The staff was swapped just before the raid and Major Charles Sweeney departed with Bockscar together with The Great Artiste and another aircraft. ...more on Wikipedia about "Frederick C. Bock"

Hara Tamiki (原民喜, November 15, 1905 - March 13, 1951) is a Japanese author. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hara Tamiki"

A Hibakusha (被爆者) is a survivor of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Japanese word translates literally to "bomb affected people." Hibakusha are entitled to government support. They and their children were (and probably sometimes still are) victims of severe discrimination due to lack of knowledge about the consequences of radiation sickness, which people believed to be hereditary or even contagious. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hibakusha"

The city of Hiroshima (広島市; -shi) is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chugoku region of western Honshu, the largest of Japan's islands. Geographical location (City Hall). It is most known throughout the world as the first city in history subjected to nuclear warfare. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hiroshima"

Hiroshima (ISBN 0679721037) is the title of a magazine article that appeared in The New Yorker in August 1946, exactly one year after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan, at 8:15 a.m., August 6, 1945. The article, which was soon made into a book, was written by Pulitzer Prize winner John Hersey. It described how the bombing affected the lives of six individuals: ...more on Wikipedia about "Hiroshima (Hersey)"

Hiroshima Peace Memorial, called Genbaku Dome (原爆ドーム), the Atomic Bomb Dome, or the A-Bomb Dome by the Japanese is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Hiroshima, Japan. It was established as such in 1996. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hiroshima Peace Memorial" The Ultimate www.shortopedia.com Machine.

Hiroshima Witness is a movie filled with interviews of people who survived the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These people are called Hibakusha and have amazing stories to tell. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hiroshima Witness"

Keiji Nakazawa (中沢啓治 Nakazawa Keiji) (born 1939) is a Japanese manga artist and writer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Keiji Nakazawa"

Kermit K. Beahan was the bombardier on the American B-29 Superfortress Bockscar, and was the one who, on August 9, 1945, visually targeted Nagasaki, Japan, in order to drop an atomic bomb onto it. It was his twenty-seventh birthday on the same day. He flew on the Hiroshima mission in the Great Artiste which was named after him, purportedly because he could hit a pickle barrel with a bomb from 30,000 feet, or he was "good with the fairer sex". ...more on Wikipedia about "Kermit Beahan"

Kokura (小倉) is an ancient castle town guarding, via its suburb Moji, the Straits of Shimonoseki between Honshu and Kyushu in Japan. Kokura is also the name of the penultimate station on the southbound Sanyo Shinkansen line, which is owned by JR Kyushu and an important part of the company's rail network. Ferries connect Kokura with Matsuyama on Shikoku, and Pusan in Korea. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kokura"

Little Boy was the code name of the atomic bomb which was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945 by the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay piloted by Lt. Col. Paul Tibbets. It was the first atomic bomb used offensively, the second being Fat Man, which destroyed Nagasaki. ...more on Wikipedia about "Little Boy"

The Manhattan Project, or more formally, the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), was the effort during World War II to develop the first nuclear weapons of the United States with assistance from the United Kingdom and Canada. Its research was directed by American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, under the overall project supervision of General Leslie R. Groves and the auspices of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The project's origins were in fears during the 1930s that Nazi Germany was also investigating such weapons of its own. ...more on Wikipedia about "Manhattan Project"

Masuji Ibuse (井伏鱒二, 1898 - 1993) was a Japanese author born in Kamo in the Hiroshima prefecture. ...more on Wikipedia about "Masuji Ibuse"

Michihiko Hachiya (1903-1980) was a Japanese medical practitioner who survived the Hiroshima bombing in 1945 and kept a diary of his experience. He was Director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital and lived near the hospital, about a mile from the explosion's centre. His diary was published in 1955. ...more on Wikipedia about "Michihiko Hachiya"

Morris Richard Jeppson (Born June 1923 in Carson City Nevada) was a Second Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He served as assistant weaponeer on the Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6 1945. In September 1945, Jeppson was awarded the Silver Star for his service during the war. ...more on Wikipedia about "Morris R. Jeppson"

Nagasaki (長崎市; -shi, literally "long peninsula") is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture. It is located on the south-western coast of Kyushu, the southernmost of the four mainland islands of Japan. It was a center of European influence in medieval Japan from first contact through the isolationist era until the opening of Japan and the resultant modernization of Japan during the Meiji Restoration. It became a major Imperial Japanese Navy base during the First Sino-Japanese war and Russo-Japanese War and eventually was the second city on which an atomic bomb was dropped by the U.S. during World War II. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nagasaki"

Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. (born February 23, 1915 in Quincy, Illinois) was the pilot of the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. ...more on Wikipedia about "Paul Tibbets" Pure http://www.shortopedia.com. Pure Information Power.

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