The Bombing Of Hiroshima
By Cameron Patterson
Facts About Hiroshima
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Little Boy and Fat Man
Hiroshima’s devastation failed to elicit immediate Japanese surrender, however, and on August 9 Major Charles Sweeney flew another B-29 bomber, Bockscar, from Tinian. Thick clouds over the primary target, the city of Kokura, drove Sweeney to a secondary target, Nagasaki, where the plutonium bomb “Fat Man” was dropped at 11:02 that morning. More powerful than the one used at Hiroshima, the bomb weighed nearly 10,000 pounds and was built to produce a 22-kiloton blast. The topography of Nagasaki, which was nestled in narrow valleys between mountains, reduced the bomb’s effect, limiting the destruction to 2.6 square miles.
Hiroto
HIROTO
The ruler of Japan is Hirohito and was the longest emperor. This is the emperor was in the attack of the Atomic bomb in WWII and he announced the surrender to the U.S. The emperor was born on April 29, 1901 in Tokyo, Japan. He was the first son of Crown Prince Yoshihito and Princess Sadoko. When he was a child Hirohito was separated from his parents. He got an imperial education at the Gakushuin School. He also went to school at a special institute which allowed him to become emperor was crowned on November 2, 1916. He then traveled to Europe. In November 1921, shortly after his return to Japan, Hirohito was appointed acting ruler of Japan due to his father’s failing health. On January 26, 1924, he married princess Nagako, a distant cousin of royal blood. The couple eventually had seven kids.
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