Who placed the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan?

Question

Who placed the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan?

Answer 1

It wasn't placed but dropped from an American B-29 bomber, named the Enola Gay.

Answer 2

American military dropped the bomb OVER Hiroshima, missed its target by a couple hundred feet. As I recall it exploded in the air couple hundred feet above the ground.

What fascinates me is that I saw a history channel episode interviewing one of the american pilots who dropped the bomb. He seemed to have no remorse nor cared that civilians were who suffered the most. A few of the men in the plane had mixed feelings after the fact.

War is ugly.

Answer 3

The bomb was dropped by the crew American enola gay.

Answer 4

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The Japanese city of Hiroshima (広島市, Hiroshima-shi?) is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the ChÅ«goku region of western HonshÅ«, the largest of Japan's islands. Geographical location 34°23′07″N, 132°27′19″E (City Hall). It is most known throughout the world as the first city in history subjected to nuclear warfare with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II by the USA.

Hiroshima gained municipality status on April 1, 1889 and was designated on April 1, 1980 by government ordinance. The city's current mayor is Tadatoshi Akiba who assumed the office on February 23, 1999.

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1 History
1.1 Atomic bomb
1.2 After the war
2 Demographics
3 Industry
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8 Sister cities
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10 Further reading
11 See also
12 References
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[edit] History
== Hiroshima was founded in 1589, == on the coast of the Seto Inland Sea, and became a major urban center during the Meiji period. The city is located on the broad, flat delta of the Ota River, which has 7 channel outlets dividing the city into six islands which project into Hiroshima Bay. The city is almost entirely flat and barely above sea level. Hiroshima was founded by Mori Motonari as his capital. About a half century later, after the Battle of Sekigahara, his grandson and the leader of the West Army Mori Terumoto was on the losing side. The winner Tokugawa Ieyasu deprived Mori Terumoto of most of his fiefs including Hiroshima and gave Aki province to another daimyo who had supported him.

Finally Asano was appointed the daimyo of this area and Hiroshima served as the capital of Hiroshima han during the Edo period. After the han was abolished the city became the capital of Hiroshima prefecture.


[edit] Atomic bomb

Atomic Bomb Dome the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, a remnant of the city near ground zero of its nuclear bombardment.Main article: Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On August 6, 1945 the nuclear weapon Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima by the crew of the American Enola Gay, directly killing an estimated 80,000 people and completely destroying approximately 69% of the city's buildings.[1] In the following months, an estimated 60,000 more people died from injuries or radiation poisoning. [2][3] Since 1945, several thousand more hibakusha have died of illnesses caused by the bomb. After the nuclear attack, Hiroshima was rebuilt and the closest surviving building to the location of the bomb's detonation was designated the Genbaku Dome (原爆ドーム) or "Atomic Dome", a part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. The city government continues to advocate the abolition of all nuclear weapons.[4][5]


[edit] After the war

Folded paper cranes representing prayers for peace and Sadako Sasaki.
Hiroshima's Skyline
Current Atomic Bomb Dome (left) and modern buildingsHiroshima was rebuilt after the war. Today, new and modern buildings rise all over the city. Several US civic leaders and scholars were consulted about the rebuilding plan. In 1949, Hiroshima was proclaimed a City of Peace by the Japanese parliament, at the initiative of its mayor, Shinzo Hamai (1905–1968). As a result, the city of Hiroshima received more international attention as a desirable location for holding international conferences on peace as well as social issues. As part of that effort, the Hiroshima Interpreters' and Guide's Association (HIGA) was established in 1992 in order to facilitate translation services for conferences, and the Hiroshima Peace Institute was established in 1998 within the Hiroshima University. In 1994, the city of Hiroshima hosted the Asian Games.

While many other Japanese cities abandoned the streetcar system by the 1980s (during the 60s and the 70s, Japanese cities were anxious to get rid of their streetcar systems due to damage to the infrastructure)[citation needed], Hiroshima retained it because the construction of a subway system was too expensive for the city to afford, as it is located on a delta. During the 1960s, Hiroshima Electric Railway, or Hiroden, bought extra streetcars from other Japanese cities. Although streetcars in Hiroshima are now being replaced by newer models, most retain their original appearance. Thus, the streetcar system is sometimes called a "Moving Museum" by railroad buffs. Of the four streetcars that survived the war, two are still in operation as of July 2006.(Hiroden model 650, (Japanese) Number 651 and 652

Answer 5

It wasn't placed,it was dropped from an airplane.

Answer 6

a u.s. military plane dropped it there

Answer 7

Nobody placed it there.

Answer 8

Google inc. did.