American soldiers dropped the nuclear bomb on the city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, followed by a nuclear bomb on Nagazaki on 9 August.
Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects killed 90,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki, with half of the deaths in each city occurring on the first day. On 15 August, six days after the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan announced his surrender to the Allies, signing the Instrument of surrender on 2 September, officially ending World War II.
At that time my parents and grandparents were interned in the Japanese concentration camp of Longwa, in China, and the nuclear attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki meant liberation, as soon as the Japanese soldiers left and that the American army liberated the concentration camp.
President Truman declared that the nuclear attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved the lives of at least 1.000.000 American soldiers who would have been killed by attacking Japan. But in 1950 the same president Truman fired the general Mac Arthur who wanted to use nuclear weapons against North Korea.
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