num_pages: 134
description: The bomb exploded over Hiroshima at 8:15 on the morning of August 6, 1945. About an hour previously, the Japanese early warning radar net had detected the approach of some American aircraft headed for the southern part of Japan. The alert had been given and radio broadcasting stopped in many cities, among them Hiroshima. The planes approached the coast at a very high altitude.
language: English
title: The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
titlecomplete: The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
genres: Japan, Technology, History, Science, World War II, Historical, War, Nonfiction, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 276
publisher: BookSurge Classics