firebombing was the kind of bomb used in hiroshima.
firebombing was the kind of bomb used in hiroshima.
what kind of bomb was used in hiroshima?
firebombing
her publications include: "the black egg" ("kuroi tamago," 1946), "the river of flame running in japan" (1960), "the songs of hiroshima" (1962), "watashi wa hiroshima wo shogen suru" ("i, a hiroshima witness", 1967), "dokyumento hiroshima 24 nen" ("documents about hiroshima twenty-four years later," 1970), "hiroshima to iu toki" ("when i say hiroshima," 1976), "the future begins here" (1979), "kakujidai ni ikiru" ("living in nuclear age," essays, 1982), "genbaku kashu, kushu" an anthology of tanka and haiku about the a-bomb (1991), "genbaku shishu," an anthology of poems about the a-bomb (1991), "hiroshima in questions," essays (1992), and many others.
sadako kurihara
in preparation for dropping an atomic bomb on hiroshima, the oppenheimer-led scientific panel of the interim committee decided against a demonstration bomb and against a special leaflet warning. those decisions were implemented because of the uncertainty of a successful detonation and also because of the wish to maximize shock in the leadership. no warning was given to hiroshima that a new and much more destructive bomb was going to be dropped. various sources gave conflicting information about when the last leaflets were dropped on hiroshima prior to the atomic bomb. robert jay lifton wrote that it was july 27, and theodore h. mcnelly wrote that it was july 30. the usaaf history noted that eleven cities were targeted with leaflets on july 27, but hiroshima was not one of them, and there were no leaflet sorties on july 30. leaflet sorties were undertaken on august 1 and august 4. hiroshima may have been leafleted in late july or early august, as survivor accounts talk about a delivery of leaflets a few days before the atomic bomb was dropped. three versions were printed of a leaflet listing 11 or 12 cities targeted for firebombing; a total of 33 cities listed. with the text of this leaflet reading in japanese "...we cannot promise that only these cities will be among those attacked..." hiroshima was not listed.
atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki