Pictures of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and today

Blind light like thousands of strong lights – this is how Tushico Tanaka described the morning, 80 years ago, the United States dropped a atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

On August 6, 1945, Enola Gay B-29 Superfortress Bomber delivered its load, which is called Little Boy, to the reassured civilians in Hiroshima. Three days later, a second bomb – a fat boy – fell on Nagasaki. The shelling led to the surrender of the Japanese official in World War II on September 2, 1945.

By the end of 1945, about 210,000 people, most of them Japanese civilians and Korean workers. Some perished immediately in the explosions, and others later died of radiotherapy. Pregnant women have lost children in the wake of this, and thousands of civilians will fall victim to cancer and other side effects over the following decades.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain the only two cities targeted by nuclear weapons. Tanaka, who was only 6 years old when the bomb fell, Tell CBS News in 2020 Both remain from the scars because of the horrors launched by President Harry S. Truman and the Manhattan project scientists in the early hours of August.

Hiroshima bombing

In the wake of the destruction of the young boy, a stone building remained five floors with obsessive windows and a deteriorating roof, despite his proximity to Hypocense to the bomb and the vaporization of everyone inside.

After that, known as the conservative industrial promotion hall in Hiroshima, the building was destroyed by the explosion, but the wonderful steel dome, which bore the upper explosion, endured as a symbol of the city’s flexibility. Today, the structure is part of the Hiroshima peace monument.

The atomic explosion, a gunfire, destroyed or severely damaged 60,000 buildings in Hiroshima-thirds of the city’s total structures. This image, taken by the American military poll, shows the city before and after the Enola Gay flew.

Three years after the bomb fell, Hiroshima still looks like a twisted steel and charred knees. This image, which was history in 1948, shows how life began to spread from ruin, with a handful of buildings that spread in the devastating scene.

Today, Hiroshima is a prosperous city of 1.2 million people – 3.5 times from the city’s 350,000 population. After the bombing, the population rose to about 83,000.

Nagasaki bombing

Nagasaki has generally witnessed less than Hiroshima, due primarily to the geography of the city and urban design. However, 14,000 structures – 27 % of all buildings in the city – were destroyed when Boy Boy exploded over Nagasaki. Only 12 % of regional capital structures remained unsafe when dust settled on the southern Japanese island.

By 1948, Nagasaki was slow to recover. The temporary structures began to appear after a year of bombing, but the city’s rebuilding will not begin until the Nagasaki International City Reconstruction Law was approved in 1949.

Today, Nagasaki is a home of approximately 400,000 people, a height of 263,000 called City Home 80 years ago.

Nuclear War, after 80 years

Today there are nine nuclear armed countries-the United States, Russia, China, the United Kingdom, France, North Korea, India, Pakistan, Israel-and fear of the nuclear war in its rise again, thanks to the increasing regional tensions in the Middle East and the ongoing war in Okreen.

On Wednesday, at his holding of 80 years since the bombing, The mayor of Hiroshima Kazumi Matsi said These conflicts “threaten to drop the frameworks of building peace, and many have worked hard to build”

He said: “Policy makers in some countries accept the idea that nuclear weapons are necessary for the national defense. This ignores the lessons that the world should have learned from the past tragedies,” with the steel dome that now tied in the Hiroshima Peade Memorial monument, which represents a horizon behind it.