73 years ago, the use of the atomic bomb by US forces to overcome the Japanese resistance accelerates the end of the world war.
While several British and American teams had been working since 1939 on an atomic bomb, President Roosevelt decided in 1942 to release additional credits in advance of the Germans. Like the La Croix report in a post-bombing article, it was on July 16, 1945, in a desert area of New Mexico, 193 kilometers south of Albuquerque.
After the success of this trial and the Japanese resistance that caused losses to the US military, President Trouman ordered an atomic bomb to be launched as quickly as possible in a populated city of Japan. On August 6, 1945 in the morning, the American pilot Paul Tibbets aboard the airplane Enola Gay, big in Hiroshima the uranium bomb Little Boy. More than 70,000 people died in the explosion and tens of thousands of gripper burned. Many will die years later as a result of radiation.
For some observers of the time, the article of La Croix published August 8, 1945 is the echo, the use of the army at the end of the war against Japan car: "It is difficult to believe that a responsible people or government in the future unleash armed forces. "The human race to a horrible ruin," he says.
Three days later, another atomic will be dropped on Nagasaki! The Second World War will be concluded on September 2, 1945, with the signing of Japan's Surrender Acts.
