It just dawned on me--which city, Hiroshima or Nagasaki

[asjr]

was the first city to be atom-bombed during WW2 on August 6th?

[Odin2005]

1. Hiroshima

[JSK]

2. No offense but

you could have looked it up in the time it took to type that post. Just sayin...

[asjr]

3. No offense taken but I really didn't think

of googling that. Spur of the moment happening.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

4. Hiroshima, Aug 6th... Nagasaki, Aug 9th

Hiroshima was a smaller 16kt uranium bomb that claimed more lives than the larger yield 21kt plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki. The disparity in casualties, despite the yield of bombs dropped, was due to poor weather over Nagasaki causing the bomb to land somewhat "off target".

[jberryhill]

5. What just dawned on you?

First off, Hiroshima was the only city bombed on August 6. Nagasaki was three days later on the ninth.

[asjr]

8. I am beginning to believe I should never

have posted that question. I know August 6th was the first bomb-dropping. I knew there was another on a later date. I happened to have forgotten which was first. I remember the day. I will be 80 years old on Sept 1st and have forgotten some things but not all. As for "What just dawned on you?" have you never had something spontaneously come to mind?

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

6. Tsutomo Yamaguchi...

He died two years ago, but he holds a bizarre distinction.

As a young engineer, Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on business trip on August 6 and survived the blast. Three days later, he returned to his home in Nagasaki just in time to be two miles away from ground zero. He's the only human being known to have survived two atomic blasts.

I think of him whenever I'm travelling on business and find myself thinking, "This trip sucks." It could damned sure be worse.

Rest In Peace, Mr. Yamaguchi.

[lpbk2713]

7. Talk about a black cloud hanging over one's head ...

the expression must have been invented with him in mind.

[asjr]

9. Thank you for this information. When looking at pictures of the

aftermath of both cities it is amazing anyone survived. We saw the bombing through the newsreels in movie theaters.