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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Fire from the Sky (Snapshots in History)
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Fire from the Sky - Snapshots in History Author:Andrew Langley On the morning of August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, another bomb fell on Nagasaki. Both cities were devastated. More than 120,000 men, women, and children were killed or mortally wounded within seconds of the blast. Thousands more would die from radiation sickness. Thou... more »gh the bombings prompted Japan_s surrender and brought about the end of World War II, they ushered in an era in which we all live under the long, dark shadow of nuclear annihilation.« less