mtl008 Chapter 788 The First Atomic Bomb Explodes
Chapter 788 The First Atomic Bomb Explodes
As the United States' first combat atomic bomb, it was divided into four parts by three planes and a cruiser for transportation. These four parts of the atomic bomb were assembled only after they were transported to the United States military base on Tinian Island.
On August 509, , Colonel Tibbets, the only person who knew the situation, convened a meeting of all members of the " Group", which was also a briefing meeting.
At the meeting, Colonel Tibbets announced for the first time to all officers and soldiers of the "509th Group" that the reason why the "509th Group" had trained for ten months was to drop a bomb on the Japanese mainland, but this time it was not an ordinary bomb, but an atomic bomb with the energy equivalent to tons of TNT.
The mission of dropping the atomic bomb was carried out by a B-44 heavy bomber numbered 29-. Colonel Tibbets served as the pilot of the B-29 heavy bomber, and the original pilot Robert Lewis became the co-pilot.
Since no one in the entire crew understood the structure of the atomic bomb, Colonel Parsons, an atomic bomb technical expert, was ordered to fly randomly. Before departure, it was stipulated that if the atomic bomb dropping mission was not successfully completed and the plane was shot down, the technical expert Colonel Parsons should commit suicide immediately to ensure the confidentiality of the atomic bomb.
At 509:29 a.m. on August 29, the B- heavy bombers of the " Group" began to prepare for takeoff. The B- heavy bomber responsible for dropping the atomic bomb was temporarily named "Inoagaye", which was the name of Colonel Tibbets' mother.
Afterwards, the B-29 heavy bomber slid off the runway and took off smoothly. Colonel Parsons, an atomic bomb technical expert, climbed into the bomb bay, opened the atomic bomb's safety device, and installed the detonator. From the moment the atomic bomb was installed with the detonator, the B-29 heavy bomber "Inoagaye" became an "angry Christ" because, in just a few hours, the atomic bomb would be born into the world.
At seven o'clock, the sky over the Japanese mainland was clear, and at seven-thirty, the B-29 heavy bombers began to prepare for dropping bombs.
At 29:509, two B-29 heavy bombers from the "th Group" accompanied by the "Inoagaye" B- heavy bomber quickly left.
At 509 o'clock in the morning on August 29, 29, three B- heavy bombers of the United States " Group" entered the sky over Hiroshima, Japan from high altitude. All the crew members of the B- heavy bomber "Inoagay" wore thick sunglasses to prevent the strong light of the atomic bomb explosion from burning their eyes.
At this time, many Hiroshima citizens did not enter the air-raid shelters, but were looking up at the American B-29 heavy bombers in the sky.
Prior to this, the B-509 heavy bombers of the United States' "29 Group" had been flying over the airspace of the Japanese mainland for several consecutive days to conduct bombing training. However, this time, one of the three B-509 heavy bombers of the United States' "29 Group" that carried out the mission had been equipped with a five-ton atomic bomb and was ordered to bomb Hiroshima, Japan.
At 44:29:29, :: Tokyo time, on a US B- heavy bomber numbered - loaded with an atomic bomb, when the bombardier's sight was aimed at the center of a bridge in Hiroshima, the automatic bombing device on the B- heavy bomber was activated.
Sixty seconds later, the atomic bomb fell into the air from the open door of the American B-29 heavy bomber. At this time, the American B-29 heavy bomber, which had dropped the atomic bomb, made a 155° turn and dived down.
In an instant, the flight altitude of the American B-29 heavy bomber on the mission dropped by more than 29 meters. The purpose of doing this was to allow the B- heavy bomber to move away from the explosion site of the atomic bomb as quickly as possible.
Forty-five seconds later, the atomic bomb exploded 600 meters in the air, specifically 100 meters west of the Aioi Bridge in Hiroshima, Japan. The explosion of the atomic bomb immediately emitted a dazzling white flash, followed by a deafening explosion over the center of Hiroshima.
In an instant, a huge mushroom-shaped cloud of smoke suddenly rolled up in the Japanese city of Nagasaki, followed by hundreds of fire pillars. The city of Hiroshima immediately became a sea of scorching fire.
The strong light waves from the atomic bomb explosion blinded thousands of people in Nagasaki, Japan. The high temperature of more than 6,000 degrees generated by the atomic bomb explosion turned everything into ashes. The radioactive rain produced by the atomic bomb explosion caused some surviving people in Nagasaki, Japan to slowly die over the next twenty years.
The strong winds caused by the shock wave of the atomic bomb explosion destroyed all the buildings in Nagasaki. People and objects at the center of the atomic bomb explosion were torn apart like atoms. Those farther away from the center of the atomic bomb explosion could see the remains of men, women and children who were burned in an instant.
As for places farther away from the atomic bomb explosion, some people were lucky enough to be alive, but they were either severely burned or had their eyes burned into two holes. Sixteen kilometers away from the center of the atomic bomb explosion, people could still feel the sultry air currents caused by the atomic bomb explosion.
At the end of June 1945, in response to the pressure from the U.S. army in the Pacific battlefield and the loss of Okinawa Island, the Japanese military headquarters formulated the combat strategy of "decisive battle in Japan" in Tokyo. After the battles of Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, the Japanese military headquarters became more and more confident.
Because the Japanese military headquarters still controlled millions of Japanese troops, so the Japanese military headquarters was prepared to use the so-called "rather die with honor" determination and was prepared to fight the American army for several years until a decent outcome to the war was achieved.
However, the atomic bomb dropped by the U.S. army on Hiroshima, Japan did not make the Japanese government immediately agree to accept the unconditional surrender of the Potsdam Declaration. Instead, the Japanese government tried its best to conceal the fact that Hiroshima was attacked by an atomic bomb from the public. At the same time, the Japanese government announced to the outside world that a meteorite had fallen in Hiroshima.
This is because the bigwigs in the Japanese military headquarters and the Japanese government believed that the American army should only have one atomic bomb of such a powerful force, and it was impossible for the American army to use such a powerful bomb to attack the Japanese mainland in a short period of time.
Moreover, the Japanese government also placed its hopes on the mediation of the Soviet Union, so neither the Japanese government nor the Japanese military headquarters accepted surrender.