When the Atomic Bomb was released the pilot asked, “What have we done!”

August 6, 1945 - Was this the end of the World

Japan was steadily losing the war. Her plight was she was out of steam. Japan’s bid to dominate other countries in the Pacific was drying up. Australia could never forgot the times it was attacked.

Japanese troops and bombs struck hard at Pacific bases in their plan for a rapid command.  The Japanese put up a gargantuan tussle to dominate all of the Pacific bases.
 

Main: The plane is coming, cried a little boy. One minute and sixty seconds later the bomb had arrived.
 

One wonders if Japan ever thought it would have an atomic bomb explosion right in middle of its country. Not once, but twice.

“Though most of the groundwork for the plan of attack … had been done, President Harry S. Truman had to make the major decision of whether or not to drop the atomic bomb on Japan”, a book on Truman reveals.

He did. The ‘Atomic Age’ was born. The Japanese had already been sent an ultimatum demanding that they surrender “unconditionally”.
 

An aerial shot of the target, an area of Hiroshima, soon after the explosion.
 

It’s only atomic bomb to be used burst over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On August 9, another bomb, a different type of bomb, was dropped on the city and naval base of Nagasaki, nearly the same number were injured or died.

Why did it have the end this way?

“SOME PEOPLE STAYED AT HOME. SOME PEOPLE LOOKED FROM THEIR WINDOWS, ONLY FOR A BRIEF MOMENT. WHAT DID THEY SEE? THEY COULD NOT SEE ANYTHING ONLY THE CLOUDSLESS SKY. THE BOMB WAS FALLING AT A RECORD RATE. ALL THEY HEARD WAS THE DULL SOUND OF SOMETHING FALLING. THE YOUNG PROPLE WERE TRANSFIXED. THEY COVERED THEIR EYES. THEN, AFTER SNAKING ITS WAY IN THE OPENESS, THERE IT WAS - THE FIRST URANIUM ATOMIC BOMB. IT WAS ABOUT TO SHED ITS DEATH ON EVERYONE WHO STOOD IN ITS WAY.” -  WHAT HAVE WE  DONE. FRANK MORRIS, 2021.

Japan surrendered

In Hiroshima alone, this action cost the Japanese nearly 200,000 lives whose footprints would disappear from this earth. They were the bombs that stopped the war.

Was dropping the bombs an inhuman act?

Dropping the Bomb