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"Hell is on us."
Mamoru Shigemitsu - Japanese Foreign Minister's comments at the capture of Saipan - June 1944
Mamoru Shigemitsu - Japanese Foreign Minister's comments at the capture of Saipan - June 1944
_Atomic Bombs; Surrender of Japan
_By the summer of 1945 most of the Japanese airforce and navy was destroyed
The Japanese had vowed to fight to the last person (kamikazes were being used)
By July 1945 the Manhattan Project had created and tested an atomic bomb
Canada helped out by supplying uranium from NWT from 1942-1945
On Aug. 6 1945 a US bomber named the Enola Gay (after the pilot’s mother) dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima
40-70,000 killed instantly and 100-150,000 more died of radiation after the bomb
Three days later another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki killing another 40-70,000 instantly and many more from radiation
The Japanese Emperor finally gave in and gave a public address announcing that they must surrender
The Japanese had vowed to fight to the last person (kamikazes were being used)
By July 1945 the Manhattan Project had created and tested an atomic bomb
Canada helped out by supplying uranium from NWT from 1942-1945
On Aug. 6 1945 a US bomber named the Enola Gay (after the pilot’s mother) dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima
40-70,000 killed instantly and 100-150,000 more died of radiation after the bomb
Three days later another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki killing another 40-70,000 instantly and many more from radiation
The Japanese Emperor finally gave in and gave a public address announcing that they must surrender
Summary
Due to Japan's eager to fight till the end, USA decided to drop atomic bombs in Japan. First Hiroshima and next Nagasaki. This led to surrender of Japan.