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Unlike Hiroshima's military death toll, only 150 Japanese soldiers were killed instantly, including 36 from the 134th AAA Regiment of the 4th AAA Division. [115] At least eight Allied prisoners of war (POWs) died from the bombing, and as many as thirteen may have died.
This is a list of Japanese disasters by their death toll. Included in the list are disasters both natural and man-made, but it excludes acts of war and epidemics . The disasters occurred in Japan and its territories or involved a significant number of Japanese citizens in a specific event, where the loss of life was 30 or more.
The resulting explosion killed tens of thousands of people and destroyed about 4.7 square miles (12 km 2) of buildings. [240] The six American aircraft involved in this attack returned safely to the Marianas. [241] Postwar estimates of casualties from the attack on Hiroshima range from 35,000 to 50,000 fatalities and 69,000 to 151,000 injured ...
On August 6, 2018, the 73rd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, ... The atomic bomb immediately killed 80,000 and injured 35,000 more. By the end of 1945, 60,000 more people had died as a ...
Little Boy was a type of atomic bomb created by the United States as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II.The name is also often used to describe the specific bomb (L-11) used in the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay on 6 August 1945, making it the first nuclear weapon used in warfare, and the second nuclear explosion in history ...
Group of 7 leaders convene in Hiroshima and honor victims of the U.S. atomic bomb. But they have no new plans to reduce the threat of nuclear war. Last survivors of Hiroshima bombing watch as ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:1945 deaths. It includes 1945 deaths that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "People killed during the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki"
RELATED: Here is the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima The very first time the U.S. built a nuclear weapon was in December 1941, and the first regular nuclear test took place on ...