The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki In 1945, during the final stages of World War II, the United States dropped two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9) . Never in the World History before were there used nuclear weapons, and have never been used since then. Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chugoku region of western Honshu, which is the largest of Japan’s islands. The plane Enola Gay, took off from Tinian, a North Pacific island in the Marianas, around 1,500 south of Japan. On a