The Second World War has brought grief not only to the Europe, but also to the most eastern part of the Earth – to Japan. The beginning of the August 1945 was one of the most horrible periods for this country – the United States of America dropped two atomic bombs: firstly on Hiroshima (the 6th of August), and then Nagasaki (the 9th of August). A special "509th" was ordered to bomb one of the four Japanese cities of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Niigata, Kokura, that were still intact only for this purpose. The final choice of the goal remained the commander of the regiment, depending on weather conditions over the objects. However, the requirement to take nuclear strike before August 8, was indispensable. Details of the operation commander '509 th’ Colonel Tibbet thought over on his own. The departure, that he appointed on the August 6., was to fly with the seven machines. Chief among them, the one that carried to the goal, "Baby", he decided to fly himself. The Colonel was not a homicidal maniac, just a good commander, who knew that the hard part is better to take over. His plane number 82 with sweeping labeled "Enolla gay" in front of the fuselage in flight had to be accompanied by two more "fortress." In front of the main forces put forward trio meteorological reconnaissance. They were to evaluate the state of the weather over Hiroshima, Kokura and Nagasaki and report back with better visibility. Crew closed the order of battle, carrying scientific equipment to reset over the place of the explosion. After final preparations for launch was scheduled for 2.40 am on 6 August. At the appointed hour "Enolla Gay" took off from the runway and headed for Japan. The flight was hard, the bottom was overcast. Tibbet was worried that the mission will fail. But at 7.10 am Major Izerli sent on reconnaissance to Hiroshima, sent a comforting message: no clouds over the city. Hiroshima was a small lumen of the good weather. Later, realizing what he had done, Major Izerli, a great leader with a strong stomach and a hundred combat missions over Germany, will be a nervous wreck. His career ended in asylum where it gets for obsessive attempts to trial as the murderer is. Entire pension he would send on demand to Hiroshima post office for the children of the murdered. All of this will happen, and it would be unfair because it only doing his duty soldier. And then the morning of August 6 this message returned Tibbet normal working mood. "B-29", named after the mother of Colonel turned and lay on the executive course to Hiroshima. At 8.14 Tibbet was above the cloud clearance. Shown below the city. The commander pressed the button and "Baby" swooped down. Less than a minute later erupted over Hiroshima intolerable glare that was formed and began to swell up a ball of white fire. He stayed in the sky for about 4 seconds to hit the diameter of 60-100 m, and began to fade. The temperature inside this "man-made stars" by eye, scientists have estimated in 10.5 million degrees. Those who are in a kilometer radius of the epicenter, was lucky - they were burned once, without feeling the pain. Besides them burned: concrete buildings convert to a fine gray dust, iron and steel, balls rolled down on the burning asphalt, glass windows. That's it! Less fortunate to those who were far away, but whose gaze was directed toward the ball, they all lost their sight. The thermal energy of the explosion turned the area into 3 kilometers from the explosion in the area of continuous fire.

The second bomb fell on Nagasaki on August 9, had an even smaller effect. The city was located on the banks of the winding bay, near the fjord, surrounded by mountains. Because of what the main factors affecting the exploding "Fat Man" was largely neutralized. Destruction has undergone only a part of the city, and the casualties were "relatively small", "only about 60 thousand people," a little more than in Hamburg.

Even before the tragedy of Nagasaki, the Soviet Union began a planned operation to defeat the Japanese army in Manchuria, which, in contrast to the atomic bombings, had some military-political sense. The Kwantung Army stationed in Manchukuo had its own economic system, which in 1945 greatly exceeded the economic possibilities of the metropolis. Because it should destroy this last hope of the samurai. With this task the Soviet Army coped brilliantly, having carried out the most beautiful of operations of the Second World War. Bombing of Nagasaki after the entry of the USSR into the war was already no need, even from the point of view of Truman, but Americans still blow dealt to them.

Then there was a pause, giving the Emperor Hirohito time to react. While the Japanese used efficiently, August 15 warring parties have decided on a ceasefire and trespassed to work out the terms of surrender that followed September 2, 1945 The act was signed aboard the U.S. battleship "Missouri", dropped anchor in Tokyo Bay. Since World War II ended, the last stage of which was filled with manifestly inadequate use of force, to put the language of contemporary American politics. Inadequacy was the product of a loss of the U.S. administration in the light of unforeseen vicissitudes of the world post-war period. Received instead of the expected opportunity to reshape the world order for themselves the need to balance their desires with the interests of the Soviet Union, the White House is in turmoil decided on the actual crime, thus demonstrating the increased capabilities of humanity which has reached a critical point of possible self-destruction, on the one hand. On the other pan has laid down understanding of the need for a balanced system of insuring against rashness "monopoly of evil."

This is the face of the planet, and gained a post-war where fear conceived a mutual-beneficial effects, long excluded the possibility of a major conflict. Let go at will "nuclear genie" was quickly connected and contrary to the destination still carries a positive meaning. Verily mankind is worthy of respect for the fact that, having reached its peak of violence, found enough reason to quickly curb the "absolute evil". Although the Japanese, who had the misfortune to live in August 1945 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, from hardly easier. Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (6 and 9 August 1945 respectively) were carried out by U.S. forces in the final stages of World War II. The advertised purpose - to speed up the surrender of Japan.

As a result of the two attacks, about 300 thousand people were killed or disappeared, about 200 thousand - were subjected to radiation exposure. When the light ball, wasting the rage began to grow dim, the city struck a shock wave. The compressed air from the epicenter ran at a speed of 160 km / h, hit the buildings, crushing and overturning everything that came in the way. Hung over Hiroshima unnatural light veil of unprecedented extreme weather events. Not a dust haze, all the dust swept shock wave, such coverage occurs in a vacuum. Air is blown or been expelled from the epicenter, and the reddish glow of the growing fungus explosion was scattered around irrefrangible rays.