Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Duk da haka, a ranar 6 ga Agusta, 1945, Amurka ta jefa bam din nukiliya a kan Hiroshima, ta kashe mutane fiye da 70,000. Wannan shi ne harin nukiliya na farko a tarihi. A ranar 9 ga watan Agusta, Tarayyar Soviet ta sanar da yaki ga Japan kuma ta mamaye Manchukuo
da sauran yankuna, kuma Nagasaki ta sami bam na atomatik na biyu, wanda ya kashe kusan mutane 40,000. An sanar da mika wuya na Japan ga Allies a ranar 14 ga watan Agusta kuma Sarkin sarakuna Hirohito ya watsa shi a gidan rediyo na kasa a rana mai zuwa.