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Mar 20, 2018 · See what life in Hiroshima was like just before the atomic bombing of August 6, 1945 and in the devastating aftermath, when the city was virtually flattened. Air-raid sirens were a familiar sound for the approximately 280,000 residents of Hiroshima that still remained in the city in August 1945.
- Leah Silverman
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Nov 18, 2009 · Aftermath of the Bombing On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
Aug 6, 2020 · The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, 75 years ago — marking the end of World War II. Survivors still live with the consequences.
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- Linda Givetash,Mai Nishiyama
3 days ago · atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, during World War II, American bombing raids on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9, 1945) that marked the first use of atomic weapons in war.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Hiroshima bombing was a devastating event that occurred during World War II. On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion instantly killed an estimated 70,000 people and caused widespread destruction.
A single bomb dropped from a B-29 bomber on the morning of 6 August 1945 had killed a third of Hiroshima’s population and wiped 70% of the city off the face of the earth. Three days later, a second bomb fell on the city of Nagasaki, killing a further 35-40,000 people.
Jun 20, 2018 · The aftermath of Hiroshima. Image Credit: Public Domain. As horrific as their immediate impact was, the two atomic bombs detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki were especially devastating because the damage they unleashed was played out over many years.
