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USA launches atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan

79
years ago

06 August 1945,

He committed one of the most serious horrors in human history in the United States when the army launched a nuclear weapon in the center of the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Over 140,000 people were killed.

Bomb exploded over Shima Clinic and destroyed 250 more hectares and burned 1,000 hectares. 70,000 people died at the time and left 70,000 seriously injured. The bombing killed 90% of the city's doctors and destroyed 70% of the city. The survivors said the wounded looked like "living pieces of charcoal" and as the skin fell, they went unheading until they collapsed and died.

Many of the survivors were poisoned by radiation and many would die with much suffering after very violent. At 20 years old, Akiko Takakura survived, who described the bombing as: "Many died right away. The ends of the bodies' fingers were set on fire and the fire was spreading out of hand to the whole body."

Miyo's survivor Watanabe pointed out that many people died in the years following the bombing, when he discovered that they had expelled nuclear from radiation exposure ondorioz.Bonba and that they had destroyed Hiroshima, US President Truman, said: "This is the biggest thing in history!"

Many historians insist on them EE.UU. They didn't have to throw explosives at Japan, but they saw as future adversaries who wanted to warn the Soviet Union of this crime.

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