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Atomic Attack: The Nuclear Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945

Atomic Attack: The Nuclear Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945

Nicoll, Alexander
Grehan, John

Paperback

Series: Images of War

General Military HistoryWeapons of Mass Destruction

Publisher Price: $28.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 30, 2027

ISBN10: 1036113396
ISBN13: 9781036113391
Publisher: Frontline Books
Published: Jan 30 2027
Pages: 192
Language: English
Hiroshima and Nagasaki's devastation marks a pivotal moment in modern warfare and global history.

At 08.15 hours on 6 August 1945, one of the most seismic events in human history unfolded over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. An atomic bomb, nicknamed Little Boy, exploded about 1,500 feet above the city with a force of 15,000 tons of TNT. Around five square miles of the city were destroyed in seconds and tens of thousands of its citizens and soldiers were killed. Three days later, a second atomic bomb was unleased against Nagasaki with similar devastating results. Less than a week later Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's unconditional surrender, bringing the Second World War to an explosive end.

The story of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki begins with the Manhattan Project. From its inception in 1939, the Manhattan Project, which at its height involved more than 125,000 individuals and ultimately cost billions of US dollars, is explored in this book, as is the organisation and training of the bomb crews of 393rd Bombardment Squadron of Colonel Paul Tibbets' 509th Composite Group. For its attacks on Japan, the squadron was equipped with fifteen dazzling silverplate Boeing B-29 Superfortresses, which had been specially adapted to carry nuclear weapons.

It is, of course, the dramatic events of 6 and 9 August 1945, which are featured most prominently in this book. Every step of the attacks, from the arming of Enola Gay and Bockscar, which famously carried the two nuclear devices, to their take-off from Runway Able on the tiny island of Tinian, to the flights to the targets and the release of the bombs are revealed. Many are the unmistakable images of the detonation and effects of the two nuclear blasts, portrayed here in graphic contemporary photographs.

Portraits of the key individuals are shown, as are the test sites, workshops, aircraft and the weapons themselves to provide a wide-ranging, comprehensive visual study of the steps which led to the first and only deployment of nuclear bombs in warfare.

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