GUAM, 9 August 1945 (HAUT) – The moment the new atomic bomb that struck Japan fell on the bustling war town of Nagasaki at noon today and early reports indicated that the attack was a success as the explosion that devastated Hiroshima.
For the time being, in four days, Japan has felt the astonishment of the terrible weapon.
General Carl A. Spaatz, commander of the Strategic Air Force, announced the time of use of the atomic bomb in a brief special that read:
“At the time when the use of the atomic bomb took place at noon on 9 August in Nagasaki. Crew members reported smart results. No additional main points will be available until the project returns.”
How destructive the atomic bomb in Hiroshima unfortunately demonstrated. In the stagnant shipyards and war factories of Nagasaki, the ultimate terrible explosive force ever cast through Guy would locate targets larger than those used in the first bomb war test.
Nagasaki has a population of more than 250,000. It is on Kyushu, the island of origin in southern Japan.
Sixty percent of Hiroshima’s built domain was leveled Monday and up to 200,000 of the city’s 340,000 citizens were killed or injured as a result of the largest explosion in history.
There is no doubt that the time of the atomic explosion would be as effective as the first.
By the time the bomb fell on Nagasaki, site of major shipyards, as Japan still sought to inspect the burned and blistered corpses – “too many to count” – strewn among the rubble of what was once Hiroshima.
Testifying to the scale of the Hiroshima disaster, the enemy reported that on Thursday morning, four days after the attack, they were still unable to know the extent of the damage caused by the parachute bomb.
A special assembly of the Japanese wardrobe has been convened at the prime minister’s assembly, Baron Kantaro Suzuki, to hear an initial report on the devastation, but there is no indication in Japanese propaganda that enemy army leaders are making plans to surrender.
While avoiding the use of the atomic word, Tokyo said that the “new type” of bomb had “completely destroyed” Hiroshima.
“The effect of the bomb was so terrible that virtually all living things, humans and animals, were literally burned to death by the enormous heat and strain generated by the explosion,” Tokyo said. “All the dead and wounded were burned beyond recognition.”
“With crushed houses and buildings, adding emergency medical facilities, the government has full hands to give everything that can have relief in the circumstances.”
The Asahi newspaper made a “strong call” on the other Japanese to remain calm and renew their promises to continue the fight. He said the new bomb aimed to “subjugate the fighting spirit of our other people and the total destruction of our country.”
Japan was expecting a “new mental war,” perhaps a new ultimatum of Allied stalwart, following America’s first use of the universe’s controlled force for military purposes.
“It is imperative to extend the countermeasures to civilians of the planned attack of the enemy that opposes them,” news firm Domei said, while the “authorized neighborhoods” in Tokyo accused the United States of violating the Hague Convention by dropping its new weapon.
Calling the United States an “eternal enemy of humanity” and the bombing of a “sadistic atrocity,” Tokyo newspapers declared that the United States had exceeded article 22 of the Hague Convention, which “establishes the precept that nations at war are entitled to unlimited media selection. through which to destroy their opponents.”
American reconnaissance photographs taken from Hiroshima after the cloud of smoke and dust moved away means that much of the city has been destroyed. Five main, unidentified business objectives were devastated.
Hiroshima known as a quartermaster’s depot and Japanese army barracks center.