Which was the first Japanese city bombed with an atomic bomb in 1945?

it was horrible, they thought it was something they had to do in retaliation for Pearl Harbor. but it went far beyond. i have heard but not verified, that the emperor sent word of either peace talks or surrender either before or just after the first bomb, but we didn't get it. the US SHOULD have picked a military target and not civilian. so many children gone in an instant. then the rest dying a long, slow, painful death by radiation sickness. i remember the story about the cranes when i was in school in the 60's it was horrifying. very shameful and wrong!!!

nancyinfernley, First it should be made clear the Japanese understood all too well that our "western sensibilities" valued the life of a single human greatly. Prior to the 12/07/1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the US had been the major source of oil to Japan. Then the Japanese began to take aggressive military actions into the lower Chinese Providences. Because of this unprovoked aggression and the manner of torture the Japanese used on their Chinese POWs the US placed an embargo on exporting oil to Japan. This US embargo further solidified the Japanese belief that our empathy could be used against us. So, to your point, the Japanese purposely put their major military targets in places with high concentrations of civilians. After Hitler committed suicide on 4/30/1945 the negotiations for the Japanese surrender began in earnest. After three months it was evident that Japan would not agree to an unconditional surrender if it included their Emporer Hirohito. This forced Truman to make a hard choice. He chose the option that would cause the least amount of human deaths and no American deaths. After Hiroshima, Truman gave Japan three days to surrender. Hirohito was going to surrender but the Japanese military staged a coo de ta to keep him from doing so. So, the three days went by and Truman got no response from Japan and was forced to drop another bomb on Nagasaki. By that time the military coo de ta had failed and Hirohito surrendered.

nancyinfernley, do some reading, Japan commuted more civilian deaths then anyone. The US dropped these bombs to stop the murderous war Japan started. Believe it or not these bombs saved 10x as many lives by stopping Japan and bringing an end to it.

bhw2545w, we dropped two A-Bombs and killed thousands of people. As a result, the war was brought to an end. If we did not drop our little boy, and his big brother a few days later, millions more innocent women, children and men who were all civilians would have been extinguished by Germany's final solution. If you were to ask just one person who survived any of Germany's death camps whether we should have dropped the A-Bombs or not, what do you think their response would be? What would your response be if you survived a death camps and had watched every one of your family members raped, beaten, sodomised, made to perform sex acts on each other, eat poison, have experimental surgeries performed on them whilst still awake , be the person who carries the lifeless body of your own children out of the gas chambers and having to dump them in a mass grave with no dignity or respect, or the person who cleans your children's ashes out of the furnaces so some more children can be burned and incinerated alive all to the acceptance and pleasure of the Nazis? Nazi Germany were close to perfecting their own A-Bomb, do you think they would have kept it in their arsenal and asked the allies to come sit around a table to thrash out a diplomatic end to the war? Because if you do, then you are a fool. I honour and applaud the decision to deploy these A-Bombs as do the survivors of the war and no doubt the descendants of the survivors, irrespective of whose nation they or their ancestors fought for.

bebe: after studying WWII, if the bombs would not have been dropped , then more Americans would have been killed island hopping for years. For Japan, it was a wakeup call to stop the war. Remember, Japan started with killing innocent Americans in the first place at Pearl Harbor. Sometimes drastic measures must be taken to kill the monster. Thanks to the horrific lesson learned, the US helped Japan to rebuild and all is peaceful with the country. And as was said by Japanese leaders, "All we did was awake a sleeping tiger." The tiger then responded. p.s. Read "The Rape of Nanking," to see what Japan did to China.

hellbounder, that is hilarious. Humans are the ones that make culture and society. We make it out of what's in us. Humans made politics and war and religion. The state of the world is as it is because of humans, not politics and religion.

nancyinfernley, well what they did to Pearl Harbor wasn’t a picnic either lady. Ask the soldiers that are still buried in the USS ARIZONA on the bottom of the sea still in their ship.!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🏻

nancyinfernley, actually the emperor had told his people to fight. And civilians were training for an American invasion in the Homeland. But President Truman and General McArthur knew that a invasion of Japan would mean a lot of American would died. So Atomic bomb was a better option.

nancyinfernley, it was horrible but it would be prudent to do more research.... you need the "rest of the story". There was more to it...

How sad what humans do to each other at time of war.

this was one of those terrible days we must not forget. this day USA showed the World how nasty they can be

Bill, One soldier mentioned sharpen bamboo spears to be carried by Japanese people for the invasion of their homeland.

I have heard that even now the Japanese people face problem because of that. ..

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very bad act of american's bombers.

The bomb was made by dr Oppenheimer

After the war, MacArthur made the Emperor speak on the radio. The Japanese people believed he was a God (that's why they fought so fanatically) and were shocked to find he was just a man. All that death for someone they'd never even seen.

PamperedNanobot72025, after all the money spent rebuilding Japan the U.S. was never repaid

nancyinfernley, Wrong, you should learn more about the history of Pacific war. What Japan did to Asia countries they deserved more than that. killing civilians men's, raping women's taking children's to use on their war manufactures and more horrifying stuff. if you think what nazis did to Jewish is horrifying? Japan did it as much or worse

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No matter the reason, in war all sides are wrong and there is no excuse to murder hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians by single bombs.

For anyone who is upset by this (and it was an unsettling event) just read about the survivors of Nanjing or the men who survived the Bataan March. You might think differently after learning about these atrocious acts. I'm not fond of this part of our history but it saved many more lives in the Pacific theater than if the war had continued.

well said Awesometude.

nancyinfernley, It wasn't in direct retaliation for Pearl Harbor, that was done during the Pacific Theater. The Japanese just refused to give up.

nancyinfernley, They dropped the A bomb because japan would not surrender, this was in the very end of the war, long time after Pearl harbor. They did try to retaliate, but not with a nuclear bomb, but a "normal" bombraid, shortly after Pearl Harbor, which practically was a suicide mission...

it was sad many civilians were suffered during that time world war but same in Philippines when japanese soldiers came and conquered some cities they killed and abused an innocent pilipino people

nancyinfernley, it also saved millions of lives

my father ship was headed to the Sea of Japan when the bomb was dropped fortunately they were ordered to turn around and head home

I have known this in high school subject....this is the saddest part of a war. Many innocent people dying.

it so sad that this happen in the history😔

Really!😠