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On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 AM, the Atomic Bomb "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima by an American B-29 bomber, directly killing an estimated 80,000 people. By the end of the year, injury and radiation brought total casualties to 90,000140,000. Approximately 69% of the city's buildings were completely destroyed, and another 7% severely damaged.
On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 AM, the Atomic Bomb "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima by an American B-29 bomber, directly killing an estimated 80,000 people. By the end of the year, injury and radiation brought total casualties to 90,000140,000. Approximately 69% of the city's buildings were completely destroyed, and another 7% severely damaged.
American army didn't thought it was enough...
On August 9, 1945, Nagasaki was the target of the United States' second atomic bomb attack at 11:02 a.m., when the north of the city was destroyed in less than a second, and an estimated 70,000 people were killed by the bomb codenamed "Fat Man." According to statistics found within Nagasaki Peace Park, the death toll from the atomic bombing totalled 73,884, including 2,000 Korean forced workers and eight POWs, as well as another 74,909 injured, and another several hundred thousand diseased and dying due to fallout and other illness caused by radiation.
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fabrizia:
The desire for power and inability to co-exist peacefully always leads to suffering, pain and tragedy.People must learn from the errors of the past in order to ensure that these awful and lasting casualties do not repeat. Sadly, it hasn't happened yet.
softnsweet:
Peace is a concept we hold onto so we do not give up hope.