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August 6, 1945 - Little Boy was detonated above the city of Hiroshima
Posted on 8/6/24 at 6:22 am
Posted on 8/6/24 at 6:22 am
The B-29 bomber known as Enola Gay, piloted by Lt. Colonel Paul Tibbets, dropped the atomic bomb known as Little Boy over the city of Hiroshima at 0815 local time. Exactly 44.4 seconds later, the bomb detonated some 1,900 feet above the city, releasing the energy of some 14-18 kilotons of TNT.
Total destruction resulted everywhere within a one-mile radius of ground zero, with major fires burning everywhere for 4.4 square miles. While precise casualty figures will never be known with any absolute certainty, it is estimated that between 66,000 and 72,000 Japanese military and civilian personnel were killed in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Nearly 70% of the city had been totally destroyed.
Total destruction resulted everywhere within a one-mile radius of ground zero, with major fires burning everywhere for 4.4 square miles. While precise casualty figures will never be known with any absolute certainty, it is estimated that between 66,000 and 72,000 Japanese military and civilian personnel were killed in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Nearly 70% of the city had been totally destroyed.
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Posted on 8/6/24 at 6:25 am to RollTide1987
What was the time, locally when it went off?
Posted on 8/6/24 at 6:30 am to Bullfrog
over the city of Hiroshima at 0815 local time
Posted on 8/6/24 at 6:40 am to cypresstiger
There’s a few countries that could use a bomb or two
Posted on 8/6/24 at 6:46 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 8/6/24 at 6:50 am to RollTide1987
And now I become Death, destroyer of worlds.
- Chicken
- Chicken
Posted on 8/6/24 at 6:56 am to RollTide1987
Japanese should've listened.... 
Those bombs saved a lot of lives...
Those bombs saved a lot of lives...
This post was edited on 8/6/24 at 6:58 am
Posted on 8/6/24 at 7:01 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 8/6/24 at 7:06 am to LSUballs
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Hiroshima
The penultimate frick around and find out moment.
Posted on 8/6/24 at 7:11 am to Rex Feral
One of those things that was basically a necessary evil. It sucks that so many civilians died, but at the same time Japan wasn't backing down and the war would have likely gotten even uglier.
Posted on 8/6/24 at 7:18 am to Hangover Haven
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Those bombs saved a lot of lives...
Indeed it did. This was the alternative…
It would have been a bloodbath for everyone involved, especially Japanese civilians.
Posted on 8/6/24 at 7:50 am to CocomoLSU
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One of those things that was basically a necessary evil. It sucks that so many civilians died, but at the same time Japan wasn't backing down and the war would have likely gotten even uglier.
Yup. There is also the argument that using the two bombs in Japan probably saved the world. It allowed the world to see the consequences before they were used on a large scale.
Can you imagine what would have happened if the first nuclear exchange had happened when both sides had an ample supply of nuclear arms, the retaliatory strikes and ultimately the destruction of mankind.
Posted on 8/6/24 at 7:55 am to RollTide1987
Using the bombs against the Japs is a big reason why they’ve never been used again. We don’t make it through the Cold War if the US didn’t use them at the end of WWII. It was justified for a myriad of reasons and wasn’t even the most deadly singular use of force by the US in WWII and since no one cares about the firebombing of Tokyo they can spare me the pearl clutching over the atomic bombs.
Posted on 8/6/24 at 7:57 am to Boss13
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It allowed the world to see the consequences before they were used on a large scale.
I love the line from the movie Oppenheimer which articulates this so well: "They won't fear it until they understand it and they won't understand it until they've used it."
Posted on 8/6/24 at 8:04 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 8/6/24 at 8:09 am to Darth_Vader
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Indeed it did. This was the alternative…
How much of Japan would have fallen under Soviet rule if invasion had happened?
Posted on 8/6/24 at 8:11 am to RollTide1987
Did you know a thermonuclear bomb slammed into a North Carolina farm in 1961 - and part of it is still missing. 
Close Call!
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USAF
• In 1961, a US nuclear bomber broke up over North Carolina farmland, killing three of eight crew members.
• The accident dropped two powerful hydrogen bombs over the area, but they did not detonate.
• The military fully recovered one of the bombs.
•While the second bomb was mostly recovered, one of its nuclear cores is likely still buried in up to 200 feet of mud and dirt.
Close Call!
Posted on 8/6/24 at 8:18 am to GetCocky11
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How much of Japan would have fallen under Soviet rule if invasion had happened?
At a minimum, all of Hokkaido. As it is, Russia is (and the USSR was) just a few dozen kilometers away in Sakhalin and the Kurils. The Soviets took the lower half of Sakhalin and the South Kurils in August 1945 (and these remain a source of dispute; recall Japan shockingly defeated Russia in a war about 9 years prior to WWI and was one of the last dress rehearsals for that conflict), so, technically there was an invasion, just not of any of the major Japanese home islands.
This post was edited on 8/6/24 at 8:21 am
Posted on 8/6/24 at 8:20 am to GetCocky11
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How much of Japan would have fallen under Soviet rule if invasion had happened?
That’s a great question. We had by this time already transferred something like 150 naval vessels, primarily landing craft and frigates, to the Soviets and trained their crews to use them. So, the Soviets would have been ready to launch their own invasion probably at least by the time we were ready to go with the Cornet landings in early 1946.
I’ve never seen any actual Soviet plans for such an invasion so I cannot say exactly where they’d land. But I’d imagine their landing would be on the west coast of Honshu. The end result could have been a division of Japan similar to what happened to Germany, Vietnam, and Korea. Had this happened, there is no telling how things would go from there.
Posted on 8/6/24 at 8:22 am to Rex Feral
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The penultimate frick around and find out moment.
Actually that would have been the firebombing of Tokyo.
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Bombing of Tokyo, (March 9–10, 1945), firebombing raid (codenamed “Operation Meetinghouse”) by the United States on the capital of Japan during the final stages of World War II, often cited as one of the most destructive acts of war in history, more destructive than the bombing of Dresden, Hiroshima, or Nagasaki. Although the precise death toll is unknown, conservative estimates suggest that the firestorm caused by incendiary bombs killed at least 80,000 people, and likely more than 100,000, in a single night; some one million people were left homeless. The Japanese later called this the “Night of the Black Snow.”
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The firebombings continued until the end of the war, with an estimated 300,000–330,000 Japanese civilians killed and at least 8 million left homeless, and with an estimated 40 percent of Japan’s urban areas destroyed; 60 percent of Tokyo itself went up in flames.
This post was edited on 8/6/24 at 8:26 am
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