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| An aerial photograph reveals the devastation inflicted on Hiroshima, Japan, by an atomic bomb that was dropped on the city on August 6, 1945. Seventy thousand people were killed instantly, and 68 percent of the city was destroyed in the blast. The death toll eventually climbed to 200,000 due to radiation sickness. | ||||||
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| Manhattan Project; United States Army; United States Air Force; Hiroshima; Nuclear Weapons | ||||||
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