GIF - Hiroshima & Nagasaki & WWII Propaganda

ꕤ Fujiyama Mama | 1957  Wanda Jackson ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- 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. Source |  here ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- FUJIYAMA MAMA "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." — Harry S Truman 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: not to nuke one another to nuke third parties (with each other's consent) to hoard info re Atomic Bomb (codenamed 'Tube Alloys') [wikipedia] ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- The End. ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- ꕤ