What were the immediate and long term effects of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs?

Answer 1

Firstly an end to to the war in the pacific, the Japanese hierarcy were prepared for a land battle as they believed the americans were going to invade Japan, which would have resulted in millions more deaths on all sides. That doesn't condone what the americans did, and the outcome was an excrutiating death for many innocent people, but war is like that no matter how you look at it. Survivors suffered serious long term effects like cancers and other related illnesses, many resulting in a long lingering death.

Answer 2

I know a british man who saw the bomb going off at Hiroshima and blamed the bomb for his skin cancer years later The immediate and long term effects were the same a lot of innocent people had a terrible death.What sort of human being could do such a despicable deed

Answer 3

the deaths were quick and horrific with the terrific heat and people trying to get a cold drink that was already boiling but the long term effects will be going through 4/5/6/ generations

Answer 4

Short term Japan surrendered and many civilians died that day.

Long term- The world was afraid that 1 superpower had this capability. Scientists told Russia and others, thus beginning Nuclear Proliferation and the Cold War.

Answer 5

1. It made more countries want them because of the power or threat of power they could give a country that would otherwise be an insignificant power. Also gives them a major bargaining chip.

2, Personal opinion: If we hadn't used them no one would have known what power and destruction they could cause. Therefore, countries are unwilling to actually use them. Just to have them was enough of a threat.

Answer 6

-the fist effect was the murder of more than 100 000 inhabitants.

-the secund one was the abandonment of the war.
-the third effect was on the health of the survivors: birth of disfigured and abnormal monsters. serious burns and and handicaps. slow death of several thousands of innocent.
-the last one according to me is the environment : serious air pollution. rate of radioactivity high and durable in time. pollutant gases.

that was a drama that could be avoided cause USA won before that... poor people.

Answer 7

We are still living with the effects of the bombs developed to finish one war and prevent more.

There are now thousands of them

Answer 8

I think the immediate effects are pretty obvious...as for long term, infertility in humans and animals (and other effects of radiation).

Answer 9

It stopped them fighting, they got their country rebuilt for free.

Answer 10

Lots of dead and dying people.