{"id":6027,"date":"2009-08-06T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/08\/06\/us-drops-atomic-bomb-on-hirosh-1\/"},"modified":"2009-08-06T09:00:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T09:00:48","slug":"us-drops-atomic-bomb-on-hirosh-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/06\/us-drops-atomic-bomb-on-hirosh-1\/","title":{"rendered":"US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 1945 &#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfo.doe.gov\/me70\/manhattan\/hiroshima.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-a5479e073d154a06e2e2ea571e2a4bdc-HiroshimaDevastationLarge.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-a5479e073d154a06e2e2ea571e2a4bdc-HiroshimaDevastationLarge.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first atomic bomb has been dropped by a United States aircraft on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.<\/p>\n<p>President Harry S Truman, announcing the news from the cruiser, USS Augusta, in the mid-Atlantic, said the device was more than 2,000 times more powerful than the largest bomb used to date.<\/p>\n<p>An accurate assessment of the damage caused has so far been impossible due to a huge cloud of impenetrable dust covering the target. Hiroshima is one of the chief supply depots for the Japanese army.<\/p>\n<p>The bomb was dropped from an American B-29 Superfortress, known as Enola Gay, at 0815 local time. The plane&#8217;s crew say they saw a column of smoke rising and intense fires springing up.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/onthisday\/hi\/dates\/stories\/august\/6\/newsid_3602000\/3602189.stm\"><br \/>\nmore at the bbc<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By the way, there is a very interesting discussion of the politics surrounding the dropping of this bomb, and the subsequent cold war and east\/west relationships, over on <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/primatediaries\/2009\/08\/intimidating_the_soviets_a_hir.php\">Primate Diaries:  Intimidating the Soviets: A Hiroshima Anniversary Memorial<\/a>.  It is a very interesting read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 1945 &#8230; The first atomic bomb has been dropped by a United States aircraft on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. President Harry S Truman, announcing the news from the cruiser, USS Augusta, in the mid-Atlantic, said the device was more than 2,000 times more powerful than the largest bomb used to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/06\/us-drops-atomic-bomb-on-hirosh-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1zd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}