... most of the first work had been finished. East German troops had begun to tear up streets and to install barbed wire and fences throughout Berlin. The first concrete square blocks were used on August 15, 1961, and within the next months, the first generation of the Berlin Wall was build up: a wall consisting of concrete and ... square blocks. During the first few days of the wall going up, people could escape through the border, but it got more dangerous day by day. People tried to climb ... 8 S-Bahn and 4 underground lines, 3 autobahns and several rivers and lakes. When the wall was f...

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... . 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 the atomic bomb's radioactive fallout. It ... ...

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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 Pacific ... ...

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