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Hiroshima's modern history is well known, the atomic bomb dropped at 8:15am on August 6, 1945 destroying nearly everything in a 4 mile (7 km) radius. It also...
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Aug 5, 2015 · This is a home recording of the bombing of Hiroshima in Japan that took place on August 6, 1945. The report describes some of the event and mentions the origin for the name of the modified B-29...
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Tens of thousands in Hiroshima mourn the 70th anniversary of the United States' nuclear bomb attack against Japan.The attack was ordered by US President Harr...
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (2m 17s) tv-14. In August 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Hiroshima: The devastating effects of the atomic bomb
Learn more about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, by the United States during World War II.
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Hiroshima: What happened?
Hiroshima had served as a military centre since 1868, making it a target for Allied bombing during World War II.
At about 8:15 AM on August 6, 1945, Hiroshima became the first city in the world to be struck with an atomic bomb.
Most of the city was destroyed.
Estimates of the number of people killed outright or shortly after the blast have ranged upward from 70,000. Deaths and illnesses from radiation injury continued to mount through the following decades.
Japan formally surrendered to the Allies on September 2, 1945.
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Watch U.S. B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay decimate Hiroshima with a nuclear bomb in the Pacific War The B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay took off from the Mariana Islands on August 6, 1945, bound for Hiroshima, Japan, where, by dropping an atomic bomb, it heralded a new and terrible concept of warfare.
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Video shot by the U.S. military in 1945 shows Hiroshima after it was hit with an atomic bomb. Around 140,000 people died in the bombing. President Obama will become the first sitting U.S....
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