Now the plane that dropped the first ever atomic bomb, the Enola Gay, is on display at the National Air and Space Museum’s new center in Chantilly, Virginia. More than 230,000 people would lose their lives either directly or indirectly as a result of the two attacks.
Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, and on August 15, Japan surrendered unconditionally. Air Force to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Fearful of the casualties a land invasion would entail, President Harry Truman ordered the U.S.
VOA’s Serena Parker recently visited the exhibit and reports on the controversy.Īt the end of World War Two, with the Germans and Italians defeated, the Allies turned their attention to the Pacific, where Japan still was fighting fiercely. It recently flared up again when the plane that delivered the Hiroshima bomb went on display at the National Air and Space Museum outside Washington. President Harry Truman’s decision to use the A-bomb has been the subject of intense debate ever since. Soon after, Japan surrendered unconditionally. Three days later, the second destroyed Nagasaki. On Augthe United States dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
