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Hiroshima tragedy: a firsthand narrative by a survivor

On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber rumbled in and dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 per cent of the Japanese city and immediately killed 80,000 people. Tens of thousands more were destined to die later from radiation exposure. Three days...

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