... to expand, bringing immediate destruction. The superheated air and winds fan the fires started by the thermal pulse leaving a wide area of destruction. The atomic bomb over Nagasaki caused earth-leveling devastation to approximately 42.9 square miles. (5) Initially, radiation was less of a concern for affecting the number of casualties from a nuclear explosion, but soon Japan felt the lethal after effects of ... ...

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... -secret "Manhattan Project-, with the goal to develop an incredibly powerful "nuclear bomb- was finally complete. On August 6th, 1945, that power was unleashed upon the city of Hiroshima, practically leveling the entire city. Several days later, the same fate befell Nagasaki, and the once-proud Japanese, beaten into submission by the might of the nuclear bomb, finally surrendered, ending World ... ...

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