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Hiroshima And Nagasaki Bombing Effects

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Before World War Two, Japan was considered as a world power, an undefeatable country. However, everything changed after America bombed two cities in Japan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There were many effects that the bombing had on the country, such as many innocent civilians were dead because of it, many civilians lost hope in their country, To start off, one of the factors that were greatly affected by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the civilians, and the numerous casualties it caused. During the first bombed city, Hiroshima, it's estimated from seventy thousand to eighty thousand people were killed immediately, which consist of thirty percent of the town population. While, sixty-nine thousand were terribly injured.

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