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On August 6th, 1945, an American B-29 bomber dropped, “Little Boy”. “Little Boy” was an atomic bomb that exploded over Hiroshima releasing a blast equal to 12-15,000 tons of TNT; killing around 80,000 people immediately and many more would die due to radiation exposure(History.com). 3 days after this bombing, the second and final atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki(History.com). The bomb, nicknamed “Fat Man”, weighed nearly 10,000 pounds and produced a 22-kiloton blast, killing an estimated 40,000 people(History.com). After the bombing of Nagasaki on August 15th, 1945, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito announced the country’s unconditional surrender(History.com). This marked the end of the long grueling war, but at what cost? The

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