The force of the atomic blast was greater than 20,000 tons of TNT. Ham’s work will be cited as an important addition to a debate that continues 70 years after the event. bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb named ‘Little Boy’ on Hiroshima, a Japanese city with a population of about 300,000. The viewer becomes an eyewitness to the bombs aftermath. An absorbing and thoroughly researched work, it is a must-read for those interested in the moral aspects of total war and military strategy in general. the first film footage shot following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. He counters the common justification for the atomic attacks by proposing that the strongest influence for the attacks was the threat of Russia entering the Pacific War and dominating Asia after the war.
Ham backs up his assertion by pointing out that both American and Japanese commands were well aware that Japan was already defeated by the summer of 1945 through the combined effects of naval blockade and conventional air bombardment. bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb named ‘Little Boy’ on Hiroshima, a Japanese city with a population of about 300,000. Ham’s central argument is that such an invasion would not have occurred because the American leadership had deemed it too costly in potential U.S. Australian journalist Ham ( Sandakan) re-examines the atomic attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, confronting the popularly held belief that the nuclear attacks were justified because they ended WWII in the Pacific without a costly invasion of Japan’s home islands.
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