Today, I saw a netizen asking: "In which year did the United States drop a nuclear bomb on Japan?" The answer was August 1945.
To elaborate: in the summer of 1945, Japan's defeat was decided due to the Allied victories in the European and Pacific theaters. But Japan's frantic resistance in places like Okinawa led to a large number of Allied officers and soldiers**. At that time, the U.S. military had already formulated the "Crown" operation and the "Olympic" operation plan for landing in Kyushu and the Kanto region, and in order to protect the lives of Allied officers and soldiers, force Japan to surrender as soon as possible, and use this to restrain the Soviet Union, the United States ** Truman and high-ranking military personnel decided to drop atomic bombs on Japan to accelerate the course of the war.
On August 6 and 9, the U.S. military dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, causing a large number of civilians and severe damage.
At 8 o'clock in the morning on August 6, 1945, three B-29 US planes entered the sky over Hiroshima from a high altitude. At this time, many Hiroshima citizens did not enter the bomb shelter, but looked up at the American plane. Previously, the B-29 had flown into Japanese airspace for several days for training, but this time one of the three planes had already been loaded with a five-ton atomic bomb. At this time, he was ordered to bomb Hiroshima. At 9:14:17, when the sight and file of the U.S. plane carrying the atomic bomb was aimed in the center of a bridge in Hiroshima, the automatics were turned on. After 60 seconds, the atomic bomb fell into the air through the open hatch. At this point, the plane made a 155° turn and dived down;In an instant, the flight altitude dropped by more than 300 meters. This is done to stay as far away as possible from the ** location. Forty-five seconds later, the atomic bomb was 600 meters above the ground**, and immediately emitted a dazzling and intense white flash, and a deafening explosion occurred over the center of Hiroshima. In an instant, a huge mushroom-shaped cloud of smoke suddenly rolled up in the city, and then hundreds of pillars of fire were erected, and the city of Hiroshima was immediately reduced to a sea of scorching fire. People and things under the influence of the epicenter fall apart like atoms apart.
However, it is worth mentioning that Japan has not yet surrendered at the moment. The main reason for this was the hope that the Soviet Union would act as an "intermediary" to coordinate with the United States and achieve a "methodical surrender" or even joint talks. But on the evening of August 8, 1945, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan. Japan was in complete despair. A week later, on August 15, 1945, the Emperor of Japan announced his acceptance of the Pozdam Proclamation.