tokyo was the japanese city that was the site of the first atomic bomb drop.
tokyo was the japanese city that was the site of the first atomic bomb drop.
japanese city that was the site of the first atomic bomb drop?
tokyo
at a press conference with the japanese press in tokyo, suzuki stated that the japanese policy towards the declaration would be one of , which the united states interpreted as meaning "rejection by ignoring", leading to a decision by the white house to carry out the threat of destruction. subsequent to the white house decision, the united states army air forces dropped the first atomic bomb on the japanese city of hiroshima on august 6, 1945, and then the second atomic bomb on the japanese city of nagasaki three days later on august 9, 1945. these two bombings devastated the two cities, killing tens of thousands of people and destroying much of the cities' infrastructure as well as military bases and factories in a matter of seconds in a radius that stretched for more than 1 mile (1.6 kilometers).
potsdam declaration
by mid 1949, all physics and engineering problems with soviet nuclear project were resolved, manufacturing technologies were completed, weapon design was finalized, and kb-11 finished testing of the bomb and their components. in april 1949, a group led by khariton and k. i. shchelkin, was moved to kb-11 to prepare and carry out the first atomic bomb testing in the ussr. the test site was in the semipalatinsk area in kazakhstan and at 7:00 am on 29 august 1949, the rds-1 charge exploded; this marked the successful completion of the development and testing of the first atomic bomb in the ussr and at a yield of 22 kilotons. at 7:00 am on 29 august 1949, the rds-1 charge exploded; this marked the successful completion of the development and testing of the first atomic bomb in the ussr.
rds-2 linage