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An estimated 90,000 to 166,000 people in Hiroshima (between 26 and 49 percent of its population) and 60,000 to 80,000 people in Nagasaki (between 22 and 32 percent of its population) died in 1945, of which a majority in each case were killed on the days of the bombings, due to the force and heat of the blasts themselves.
Some estimates are that 140,000 people in Hiroshima (38.9% of the population) and 70,000 people in Nagasaki (28.0% of the population) died in 1945, but how many died immediately as a result of exposure to the blast, heat, or due to radiation, is unknown.
Pages in category "People killed during the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Postwar estimates of casualties from the attack on Hiroshima range from 35,000 to 50,000 fatalities and 69,000 to 151,000 injured. [242] More subsequently died as a result of radiation and other injuries. [243] [244] Of the survivors of the bombing, 171,000 were rendered homeless. [245]
By the end of 1945, 60,000 more people had died as a result of the blast. Today, Hiroshima is a prosperous manufacturing hub with a population of over 1.1 million.
After the war, the Hiroshima Branch reopened. "The Human Shadow of Death" and the Atomic Bomb Dome quickly became landmarks for the bomb's destructive power and the loss of life. [19] [20] To preserve the shadow, in 1959 Sumitomo Bank built a fence surrounding the stone, and in 1967 the stone was covered with tempered glass to prevent its ...
People killed during the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (7 P) Pages in category "Hibakusha" The following 72 pages are in this category, out of 72 total.
Yoshito Matsushige (松重 美人, Matsushige Yoshito, January 2, 1913 – January 16, 2005) was a Japanese photojournalist who survived the dropping of the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 and took five photographs on the day of the bombing in Hiroshima, the only photographs taken that day within Hiroshima that are known.