1945-08-06

Atomic bombing of Hiroshima

Hiroshima atomic bombingAtomic bombing of Hiroshima is a air war record around Hiroshima atomic bombing, situated in the defeat-endgame phase linking homeland air raids, food crisis, final mobilization, and surrender politics. It belongs to the wider reshaping of military politics and home-front mobilization in Japan.

Other events in this phase

Japanese Imperial Home Front163
  1. Potsdam Declaration received in Tokyo
  2. Surrender-leaflet psychological warfare
  3. Japanese response to the Potsdam Declaration
  4. Atomic bombing of HiroshimaCurrent record
  5. Supreme War Council session after Hiroshima
  6. Kyushu air raids on surrender eve
  7. Supreme War Council surrender debate
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Wartime Position

the defeat-endgame when homeland air raids, food crisis, final mobilization, and surrender politics converged

Atomic bombing of Hiroshima is a air war record around Hiroshima atomic bombing, situated in the defeat-endgame phase linking homeland air raids, food crisis, final mobilization, and surrender politics. It belongs to the wider reshaping of military politics and home-front mobilization in Japan.

Reading The Record

Placed against nearby events, the location, date, and actors around Hiroshima atomic bombing clarify changes in front lines and governing practice.

Atomic cloud over Hiroshima and Wikimedia Commons · Atomic cloud over Hiroshima provide both visual evidence and source context for the event.

Media

Atomic cloud over HiroshimaVisual recordAtomic cloud over HiroshimaA photograph of the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. It anchors the geography and surrounding context of “Atomic bombing of Hiroshima.”

Source Trail

SourceWikimedia Commons · Atomic cloud over HiroshimaOpen source