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The image of America has changed since 1945. Reading Black Rain, a popular novel from the 1960s about the Hiroshima bombing by Masuji Ibuse, the reader does not sense much anger against America. Rather, the protagonist’s anger is directed at Japan’s military government. That was partially a result of Douglas MacArthur’s strategy to rule postwar Japan. His strategy was to turn the blame on Japan’s military government and not on the Allied occupying forces.

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Grave of the Fireflies - The Bombing of Kobe [MUSIC DEMO]

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The bombings had a distinct effect on Japanese popular culture. This is evident in movies and anime.
“Godzilla is absolutely an atomic bomb document,” said Napier, a well-known journalist. “It’s absolutely a reworking—a reprocessing of the atomic bombing—instead of having a bomb come out and destroy Tokyo, you have this monster from the deep who is radioactive and is brought out from American nuclear testing.”

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The consequences of dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were so devastating that the threat of nuclear attack has shaped global politics ever since.
There are several examples of this in history. The most significant is probably represented by the Cold War. Atomic weapons were a cornerstone of the cold war and they helped to ensure that rising tensions did not escalate to full-scale hostilities.

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THE BOMB REPRESENTED IN JAPANESE ANIMATIONS

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THE BOMB REPRESENTED IN JAPANESE ANIMATIONS

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Bombing of Hiroshima depicted in realistic Japanese animation

Only one country has ever used a nuclear weapon on a civilian population in an act of war, in fact only one nation has ever used a nuclear weapon in wartime at all. It was never denied the idea was to TERRORIZE the Japanese people into surrendering, it was in fact an act of terrorism.. In 1945, the United States dropped 2 atomic bombs, both with the approximate equivalent explosive force of 20 thousand tons of TNT, or 40,000,000 pounds. One bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the other on Nagasaki days later. The moral aspects of killing hundreds of thousands of civilian non-combatant men women and children aside, the results were horrifying. In a split second over 50,000 human beings simply vaporized instantaneously, ceasing to exist. Another 150,000 in both cities died as a direct result of the explosion within seconds, and many thousands died of their injuries in the days and weeks after. No one knows for sure how many died as a result of the effects of radiation and fallout in the years after the attack.

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Bombing of Hiroshima depicted in realistic Japanese animation

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Bombing of Hiroshima depicted in realistic Japanese animation Only one country has ever used a nuclear weapon on a civilian population in an act of war, in fact only one nation has ever used a nuclear weapon in wartime at all.

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Fat Man and Little Boy (2/9) Movie CLIP - Beyond the Theoretical (1989) HD

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Scene from the movie "Fat man and Little boy"

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Scene from the movie "Fat man and Little boy"

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Fat Man and Little Boy (9/9) Movie CLIP - Testing the Bomb (1989) HD

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With no surrender agreement in place, on August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay plane dropped the “Little Boy” bomb causing unprecedented destruction and death over an area of five square miles. Three days later, with still no surrender declared, on August 9th, the “Fat Man” bomb was dropped over Nagasaki, destroying more than three square miles of the city.

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The Potsdam Conference, on July 26, 1945, delivered an ultimatum to Japan: surrender under the terms outlined in the Potsdam Declaration (which, among other provisions, called for the Japanese to form a new, democratic and peaceful government) or face “prompt and utter destruction.”
The Potsdam Declaration provided no role for the emperor in Japan’s future so he was unwilling to accept these terms.

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On July 16, 1945, in a remote desert location near Alamogordo, New Mexico, the first atomic bomb was successfully detonated creating an enormous mushroom cloud some 40,000 feet high and starting the Atomic Age.

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The Manhattan project is the code name for the secret US project, set up in 1914, to develop the first atomic bomb. This project was started in response to fears that German scientists had been working on a weapon using nuclear technology and that Hitler was prepared to use it. The scientist in charge of the operation was the theoretical physician Robert Oppenheimer that worked in the Los Alamos Laboratory, where the first bombs were created and tested.

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The atomic bomb did what it was designed to do. They created such a high level of devastation that the Japanese felt they had no option but to surrender unconditionally to the United States and this was the end of WWII.