It was uninhabitable for a hundred years after the atomic bombing. Why are so many people still living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Many people say that areas hit by atomic bombs cannot survive at least one or two hundred years. But in 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed with atomic bombs. Just ten years after the war, people were living in one place after another. Both cities have been very prosperous for decades. It has a large population, many new modern buildings and lush vegetation. Hiroshima even hosted the Asian Games in 1994.

The Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima were certainly struck by real atomic bombs from the United States. Some conspiracy fanatics may believe that Japan was not hit by the atomic bomb at all, that the United States and Japan cooperated in operations, and so on.

But anyone familiar with World War II knows that unlike the close relationship between the United States and Japan today, during World War II, the United States and Japan were really life-and-death and were unstoppable opponents. In fact, nuclear explosions are not terrible. The picture above shows the night view of Hiroshima, Japan. Very prosperous. It doesn't look like it was destroyed by an atomic bomb more than 70 years ago.

After the Pacific War broke out, there were some "East Asian bosses" in Japan who were very excited that they could finally compete with white people. If the United States did not use atomic bombs to completely destroy Japan's psychological defense twice, how could the fanatical Japanese Empire be willing to surrender?

In August 1945, U.S. imperialism dropped a "little boy" in Hiroshima, Japan, and then a "fat man" in Nagasaki, Japan, equivalent to 17,000 tons and 20,000 tons of TNT respectively. Japan was almost permanently bombed. These two atomic bombs directly caused Japan to give up its resistance and surrender unconditionally.

However, Hiroshima and Nagasaki recovered soon after the war and were not greatly affected by the atomic bomb. This is mainly because the two atomic bomb attacks by the United States were not perfect. For example, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was the "Little Boy" bomb, which was a uranium bomb.

Because uranium is so rare and precious, in order to end the war as soon as possible, the United States put it into actual operations without ever conducting any actual uranium bomb tests. Only after actual use did the United States discover that the power of the "Little Boy" had not been fully released. If slightly improved, the attack power of "Little Boy" will be increased by at least 10 points.