Date: 8 August 2014
Criteria of
CAS: Service
Approximate
time: 2 hours
Venue: D Y
Patil International School, Nagpur
“We are still living in the aftershock of
Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.” - Edward Bond
In August
1945, during the final stage of the Second World War, the United States dropped
atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two
bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear
weapons for warfare in history.
Our CAS
coordinator gave us responsibility to present this to our school. We planned the whole event. I was given
responsibility to explain how this occurred and how they did the bombing. Hiroshima
was the primary target of the first nuclear bombing mission on August 6, with
Kokura and Nagasaki as alternative targets. The 393d Bombardment Squadron B-29
Enola Gay, piloted by Tibbets, took off from North Field, Tinian, about six
hours' flight time from Japan. The Enola Gay (named after Tibbets' mother) was
accompanied by two other B-29s. The Great Artiste, commanded by Major Charles
Sweeney, carried instrumentation, and a then-nameless aircraft later called
Necessary Evil, commanded by Captain George Marquardt, served as the
photography aircraft.
70,000–80,000
people, of whom 20,000 were soldiers, or around 30% of the population of
Hiroshima, were killed by the blast and resultant firestorm,[133][134] and
another 70,000 injured.
Over 90% of the doctors and 93% of the nurses in Hiroshima were killed or injured—most had been in the downtown area which received the greatest damage. The hospitals were destroyed or heavily damaged. Only one doctor, Terufumi Sasaki, remained on duty at the Red Cross Hospital. Nonetheless, by early afternoon, the police and volunteers had established evacuation centres at hospitals, schools and tram stations, and a morgue was established in the Asano library.
.JPG)
