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The Aftermath

Casualties of the Atomic Bombs

Hiroshima: August 6, 1945, Little Boy, exploded at 8:16 a.m. (Hiroshima time), almost 2,000 feet above the ground. It had a yield equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT. Everything within four square miles was destroyed.

Instantly Killed:
70,000
Instantly Injured:
70,000
December 1945 total death toll:
140,000
1950 total death toll:
200,000

Nagasaki: August 9, 1945, Fat Man, exploded 1,650 feet above Nagasaki at 11:01 a.m. It had a force of 21,000 tons of TNT. Everything within three square miles was destroyed.

Instantly Killed:
40,000
Instantly Injured:
60,000
January 1946 total death toll:
70,000
1950 total death toll:
140,000

The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused just a fraction of the casualties of WW II. *The March 1945 fire bomb raid on Tokyo killed nearly 100,000 people and injured over 1,000,000, and the May 1945 fire bomb raid killed another 83,000.* The total death toll of World War II for both Allied and Axis nations is estimated to exceed 55 million, more than half civilian. It would have been a lot more if we had not dropped the atomic bomb(Dickey,p.424).

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