Question

What was an effect of the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan?

Answer 1

By the end of 1945, the bombing had killed an estimated 140,000 people in Hiroshima, and a further 74,000 in Nagasaki. In the years that followed, many of the survivors would face leukemia, cancer, or other terrible side effects from the radiation.

Answer 2

Answer:

The bombings did lead to the surrender of Japan on August 15, 1945, ending World War II.

Why did the United-States drop two atomic bomb on Japan in World War II?

The United States intended to keep dropping atomic bombs until Japan gave up. The US did consider that a single bomb might not persuade Japan that it had a sufficient supply of bombs for a continuous campaign of atomic bombing in its strategic study before to the atomic bombings and intended to launch the second atomic bomb shortly after the first. Following Hiroshima, the Japanese military did make the same argument, claiming that since the US lacked an adequate supply of atomic bombs, the war should continue.

For a long time, the US lacked the atomic weapons necessary to carry out quick atomic bombardment. The US arranged for the two bombs to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. On August 19–20, a third bomb was prepared to be detonated. In September, a fourth bomb should have been ready, and from then until January 1946, one bomb was made per month.

• The Potsdam Declaration, which set the conditions for Japan's surrender, was released on July 26 by the US, UK, and China.
• Japan publicly rejected the Potsdam Declaration on July 28.
• The US launches an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6.

The USSR invades Manchuria on August 8 and 9, declaring war on Japan. Second nuclear bomb is dropped on Nagasaki by the US. The Japanese Supreme War Council meets to examine the Hiroshima atomic bombs and the Soviet invasion; the council cannot agree on the Potsdam Declaration's terms without conditions. In a full cabinet meeting, the Japanese government is unable to agree on accepting the Potsdam agreements. Starting around midnight, an Imperial Council is assembled to negotiate capitulation.

At 2:00 a.m. on August 10, the Imperial Council decides to accept the Potsdam conditions with the additional restriction that the Emperor's authority not be changed. Through Swiss diplomats, telegrams are delivered to the Allies expressing acceptance of the Potsdam accords with conditions.

There was no high-level Japanese government meeting between the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but there was plenty of behind-the-scenes wrangling, with Japanese military leaders trying to obstruct a meeting where the topic of surrender could be discussed while civilian leaders were trying to pull off a meeting.

Even the announcement of Nagasaki's atomic explosion before the Supreme War Council on August 9 failed to end the impasse over approving the Potsdam Declaration.

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