atomic bombings
Wartime nuclear strikes
The atomic bombings refers to the United States' nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1945—the only wartime use of nuclear weapons.
The bombings killed over 100,000 people immediately, with many more dying from radiation effects, and prompted Japan's surrender ending World War II.
The atomic bombings remain controversial among historians.
- HiroshimaFirst nuclear-struck city
- nuclear fissionAtomic core division
- uranium-235Fissile nuclear isotope
- NagasakiSecond city bombed atomically
- memorialsTributes to the departed
paper cranes · plutonium-239 · arms race · Fat Man · war crimes · Manhattan Project · disarmament · Enola Gay · air raid · Little Boy · chain reaction · radiation sickness · critical mass · mushroom cloud · nuclear fallout · V-J Day · total war · Cold War
- Pacific WarPearl Harbor, Iwo Jima, Midway, Okinawa, Guadalcanal
- Wartime JapanEmperor Hirohito, Hirohito, militarism, Pacific War, Pearl Harbor
- catastrophesdisasters, disaster, natural disasters, catastrophe, apocalypse
- Imperial JapanEmperor Hirohito, Hirohito, Rising Sun, Meiji, kamikaze
atomic bombingssurgical strike
Targeted operation minimizing damage
precision bombing · limited engagement · skirmish · drone strike · sniper attack
atomic bombingsconventional warfare
Armed conflict using standard military forces
ground combat · hand-to-hand combat · trench warfare · bayonet charge · sword combat
atomic bombingshumanitarian aid
Crisis relief for sufferers
peacekeeping · ceasefire · armistice · rescue mission · evacuation
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