Then, on September 2, the formal surrender agreement was signed aboard the U.S. 'Victory in Japan' or 'V-J Day' celebrations took place across the country. A 1998 study found that around an additional 62,000 people in Hiroshima had died as a result of the bomb, bringing the total number of victims to more than 200,000.įollowing the two bombings, Japan surrendered on August 15, which Emperor Hirohito announced in a radio broadcast.
Many victims died years later, as a result of cancer and other illnesses linked to radiation poisoning caused by the bombings. Cold War Nuclear Bomb Tests Altered Rainfall Thousands of Miles Away.Even Regional Nuclear War Would Cause Unprecedented Global Food Crisis.
