Japanese Scientist visits Hiroshima #ww2

Dr Yoshio Nishina, the nation’s leading nuclear scientist and Lieutenant General Seizo Arisue, the chief of Intelligence, were then sent to Hiroshima to investigate what had happened to the city. As their plane approached the city, both men would look out of the window, but what they saw was not what they had expected to see.

“The general had seen many cities laid waste by fire bombings—usually there was smoldering debris, smoke from emergency kitchens and some signs of human activity—but below him stretched a lifeless desert. No smoke, no fires, nothing. There wasn’t a street in sight.”

With no landing strip visible, the pilot turned and shouted,
“Sir, this is supposed to be Hiroshima. What should we do?”
“Land!” said the general.

Their plane eventually touched down, with Dr Nishina beginning to study the city. Almost immediately, however, he would come to the inevitable conclusion: An Atomic Bomb was the only thing powerful enough to have caused such destruction.

Nishina’s findings would be relayed back to Tokyo, confirming that an atomic bomb had indeed been used. An immediate audience with the Soviets was now Japan's top priority.
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