JOURNEY'S END

摘要

After the German surrender in May 1945, the focus of Allied military action turned to the Pacific and the Japanese, whose leaders were determined to continue hostilities. Although by August the enemy had already been largely overrun, the Allies felt that Japan would not surrender unless a shattering strike was made on its homeland. This was delivered on August 6 and 9, when atomic bombs were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - with devastating effect. Six days after the second attack, on August 15, Emperor Hirohito issued a public broadcast declaring the Japanese surrender. It brought six years of warfare to an end, a global conflict that had accounted for the deaths of more than 60 million people.