Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Sharif Sunday, August 06, 2023 11:37 AM Today marks the anniversary of the “Little Boy” atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima City Japanese, in one of the worst chapters of World War II, what happened, and how did the Americans take the devastating decision?
The book “Nuclear Weapons… A Very Short Introduction” by Joseph M. Siracusa, translated by Muhammad Fathi Khader, published by Hindawi, says:
The United States now possesses in its arsenal a weapon unparalleled in terms of destruction. Indeed, Stimson suggested that this weapon would create a “new relationship between man and the universe.” Truman’s advisors agreed that the atomic bomb was capable of ending the war in the Pacific, but they differed. On how best to use it. Ironically, the scientists who developed the bomb wanted to use it against the Nazis, and were horrified when they learned it would be used against Japan.
Some have suggested showing the capabilities of the bomb by detonating it in an uninhabited area, while others have called for it to be used against the Japanese naval forces and should never be used against Japanese cities. Some have even argued that the intention is not to defeat Japan as much as it is to employ “atomic diplomacy.” Against the Soviet Union, and set an example in order to facilitate dealing with it in Eastern and Central Europe after the end of the war.
After examining the various proposals, Truman concluded that the only way to shorten the war—while avoiding an invasion of Japan—was to use the bomb against Japanese cities. Shortly after 8:15 on the morning of August 6, 1945, a single B-29 dropped “Enola Gay” is called the little boy’s bomb over the city of Hiroshima (population 350,000), the second most important industrial and military center in Japan; Immediately killing between 80 and 140,000 people, and seriously injuring 100,000 or more, this was the first uranium-235 bomb (the one that had never been tested), and had an explosive power of 20,000 tons of Ti NT, which is a paltry primitive capability compared to later thermonuclear bomb standards.
A mushroom cloud rising over Hiroshima
However, in that terrible moment, 60 percent of the city of Hiroshima was destroyed, that is, 4 square miles, an area equivalent to one eighth of the area of New York City, and the temperature of the explosion was estimated at more than a million degrees Celsius, which lit up the surrounding air and formed a fireball about 840 feet in diameter, Eyewitnesses from more than five miles away reported that the explosion was ten times brighter than the sun, people felt the blast 37 miles away, more than two-thirds of Hiroshima’s buildings were destroyed, and hundreds of raging fires and the heat wave of the explosion combined to produce a firestorm that incinerated everything Consigned to ash within 4.4 miles of the epicenter, Hiroshima vanished under a sizzling foam of flame and smoke.
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2023-08-06 08:37:00
