[PeterPrinciple]

On August 5, 1945, a B-29 was maneuvered over a bomb loading pit and then taxied to Runway Able at North Field. At 2:45am on August 6, the B-29 - piloted by Lt. Col. Paul Tibbets of the US Army Air Force, who had named the plane after his mother, Enola Gay - took off. On August 6 at 8:15 am Hiroshima time, the Little Boy bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. A minute later, the bomb exploded.

The great destruction of the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not immediately spur Japan to surrender. On August 14 it was decided that an additional attack was necessary. Hundreds of B-29s from Guam, Saipan, and Tinian - loaded with powerful Torpex bombs - converged on the Japanese city of Koromo to deliver the last attack of the war. The Japanese surrendered unconditionally the next day.
http://www.atomicheritage.org/location/tinian-island

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The Japanese were a stubborn enemy. In and of itself, the atomic bomb was not the only factor, but it was a MAJOR factor. Simple version is we dropped the bomb and the war ended, there was much more to it than that.

[RayChuang88]

A little tidbit on Koromo: because of the importance of the Toyota Motor Company in that city (Koromo was home to the Toyota Automatic Loom Works, Ltd. and the Toyota Motor Company grew out of that loom manufacturing company from 1938 on), in 1959 Koromo was renamed Toyota City, a name still used to this day.

[TheNext]

Fukushima is Japan’s gift to the world. Three 100 ton nuclear cores blasting the sea and air for decades.

Have you Geiger Countered your food lately?