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Bilingual USA
WWII Propaganda
US-ANGLO
ATOMIC BOMBINGS
Hiroshima & Nagasaki Japan
August 6 + August 9, 1945
1950 estimate: 230,000 killed
only use of nuclear weapons
in history
6 August 1945
Hiroshima
first atomic bomb
bomb bears name 'Little Boy'
initially kills 70,000
{20% of 350,000 inhabitants}
Giant shock-wave flattens city centre
End of 1945: further 60,000 die (Hiroshima alone)
Result of:
radiation exposure, burns & severe injuries
9 August 1945
Nagasaki
{original target Kyoto}
second atomic bomb
bomb bears name 'Fat Man'
22,000 tons of TNT
est 70,000 killed
Mitsubishi Steel & Munitions Works
{torpedo construction
- used Pear Harbour (2,403 killed)}
shipyards & port
1950 estimate: 230,000 killed
US-Anglo Atomic Bombings
est. 230,000 killed
in two deadly strikes
WAR CRIMES
Many historians regard the US-Anglo attacks on Hiroshima & Nagasaki as war crimes.
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FUJIYAMA MAMA
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
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US-Anglo Atomic Bombings
President Harry S. Truman
Winston Churchill
USA
(with British consent)
as per Quebec Agreement
Anglo-American
re nuclear energy & weapons
Signatories:
Winston Churchill
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1943
initiated by British
UK handed over all material to USA
Britain received all copies of US progress reports
British atomic research subsumed under Manhattan Project
until after WWII
Post WWII
large team of British & Canadian scientists moved to USA
Agreement intent:
- to nuke third parties (with each other's consent)
- to hoard info re Atomic Bomb
- (codenamed 'Tube Alloys')
[wikipedia]
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