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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.
An estimated 210,000 people died, either immediately or over time, as a result of the bombs dropped in 1945 on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, respectively.
This Tokyo residential section was virtually destroyed following the Operation Meetinghouse fire-bombing of Tokyo on the night of 9/10 March 1945, which was the single deadliest air raid in human history; [42] with a greater loss of life than the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima or Nagasaki as single events or a greater civilian death toll and ...
Hiroshima today looks completely different than it did 73 years ago. On August 6, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima that destroyed most of the city and instantly killed 80,000 of ...
The radioactive plume from the bomb dropped on Nagasaki City, as seen from 9.6km away in Koyagi-jima (Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum/Getty) “I was lying down reading a book and then suddenly there ...
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 .
The atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, destroyed the city, killing 140,000 people, and a second bomb dropped three days later on Nagasaki killed an additional ...
Arguments made against the attacks include that Japan would have eventually surrendered and that the attacks were made to either intimidate the Soviet Union or justify the Manhattan Project. In 1994, an opinion poll found that 55 percent of Americans supported the decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [319]