An infamous aniversary of U.S. dropping an A-Bomb on civilians


	An infamous aniversary of U.S. dropping an A-Bomb on civilians

thinkingblue

8-10-2007 8:00 AM

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a-bomb, truman, 1945, hiroshima, nagasaki, japan, politics

thinkingblue says:

It was 62 years ago this week when President Harry S. Truman ordered the A-bomb to be dropped on the cilvilian population of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan. The United States of America is the only government to use nuclear weapons in warfare.... Thus far!

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dropping the A-Bomb on Japan. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were 
nuclear attacks during World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United 
States of America under US President Harry S. Truman. On August 6, 1945, the 
nuclear weapon "Little Boy" was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, followed on 
August 9, 1945 by the detonation of the "Fat Man" nuclear bomb over Nagasaki. 
They are the only instances of the use of nuclear weapons in warfare.<BR><BR>The 
United States Department of Energy estimates that, at Hiroshima, the death toll 
from the immediate blast was roughly 70,000, with additional deaths occuring in 
the time soon after the explosion and in the decades that followed. The figures 
for Nagasaki are slightly less. Other estimates vary widely, and are as low as 
74,000 for Nagasaki. In both cities, the overwhelming majority of the deaths 
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