Environment Management

Topic : Pearl Harbor & Hiroshima &

Nagasaki
Presented to : Prof: Ishita Tanna

Presented By:
Affan Shaikh (A 27)
Priya Datar (B-07)
Narendra Chauhan (B- 34)

Pearl Harbor
Originally known as Wai Momi
(Waters of Pearl)
United State Navy established a base
on the island in 1899
located on the southern end of the
island of Oahu state Hawaii
3 major Lochs West, Middle, East

 The Empire of Japan vs Republic of China in 1937

Tripartite Pact
United States closed the Panama Canal
(Oil Embargo)
Attack - December 7, 1941
Japan not only started fight with the U.S. but the first
nation in the Pacific War to deliberately target noncombatants.

Historian- Samuel Eliot Morison

The Sleeping Giant was awakened

At Pearl
Harbor..
350 Japanese planes
Airbases across Hawaii and battle ships were
targeted
Eighteen ships sank, including five
battleships, and a total of more than 2,000
Americans were killed
3 battle ships are still at the bottom of the
harbor
29 Japanese planes lost
Over sixty Japanese were killed

Tears of the Arizona

Black tears
On December 6, 1941, the USS Arizona took on a
full load of fuelnearly 1.5 million gallons
The explosion of the USS Arizona
burned for two days
sank to the bottom
cloud of black smoke by burning black powder from
the magazine

some 500,000 gallons are still slowly seeping out

Nearly 70 years after its demise - continues to
spill up to 9 quarts of oil into the harbor each day
Arizonas role as a War Grave..!

The Bombing of Hiroshima

and Nagasaki

Reason Behind Bombing

Potsdam Declaration

Issued on 26 July 1945

United sate came with the new tactic to force Japan to surrender.
Harry S. Trumans First attempt at negotiating with Japan.
Japan refused the Declaration

The Manhattan Project

Choosing Target
There were four targets to choose from:
Hiroshima, Kokura,
Nagasaki, and Niigata

Attack On Hiroshima & Nagasaki

On August 6, 1945, Paul W. Tibbets and his crew dropped the Uraniumbased Atomic bomb on Hiroshima
The bomb was code named Little Boy.
The Estimate bombing of Hiroshima Killed
80,000 People. The total death by the end of
1945 is 166,000
On August 9, 1945 The second atomic bomb
Named FAT MAN was dropped on Nagasaki
39,00080,000 killed in Nagasaki
Japan surrendered to the Allied Powers on August 14, 1945

Long Term Effects of Hiroshima Nagasaki

The population in Japan in October 1940 was estimated to be
73,114,308 in November 1945 the population was estimated at
71,998,104
Exposure to radiation can cause acute, near-immediate effect
by killing cells and directly damaging tissue
Radioactive rays
most deadly was leukemia
small head size and mental disability
Blindness
Black rain

Thank You.