... that surged through the area. Pressure waves swept through the area, wiping out just about everything in a 1-mile radius. In Hiroshima, the bomb destroyed everything within 4 square miles and in Nagasaki; it destroyed everything within 1.5 square miles. In Nagasaki, the damages cost were smaller than in Hiroshima because of the strategic position of Nagasaki. It is located between two mountains, and therefore ... ...

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... the economy was unsuccessful. The allies adopted a tactic known as carpet bombing that primarily targeted industrial urban areas in an attempt to disrupt their economy. In Dresden for instance, 13 square miles were destroyed, illustrating the extent of destruction inflicted by the bombings. This meant that priorities were changed as focus had to be shifted away from the war economy to ... ...

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... necessary. The allied military leaders estimated extremely high casualties in the event of the invasion. On August 6, 1945 the first bomb, "Little Boy," was detonated over Hiroshima, destroying 4 square miles of the city. However, even after the bombing, the Japanese still did not surrender. Therefore, President Truman made the decision to drop a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. On ... ...

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... to the nation was given on August 6th, sixteen hours later, when an American plane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. The bomb destroyed over four square miles of the city, killing or injuring more than 135,000 people. (Goodman, Philip). In the early 1940s, Japan had expansionist aims in Eastern Asia, Indo China and the Western ... ...

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... as Hutu) is important. Burundi achieved independence from Belgium in 1962. It had a population estimated at about 3.5 million in the 1970's and a land area of slightly more than ten thousand square miles. The original inhabitants of the area of modern-day Burundi were probably the Batwa (Twa), a subgroup of the Twide pygmies. The Bahutus compose nearly 85 percent of the population ... ...

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... have remained the only two Atomic Bombs actually used in war (World History: The Modern Era). In only a matter of milliseconds the blast created a maximum pressure of 35 tons per square meter, and maximum wind speed of 440 meters per second all while traveling through the air at 20.1 kilometers a minute. The heat rays projected from the mushroom cloud reached areas ... ...

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