... had broke and melted due to the extreme heat put off by the explosion. Before the blast, Hiroshima had forty-five hospitals. . . after the explosion, three were standing. About six square kilometers of the commercial and residential areas of the city had been completely destroyed by this blast. The explosion had barely touched factories that lay on the city edge. When ... more powerful than the one dropped in Hiroshima. Over 75,000 people died during this bombing. Twelve hours later, fires in Nagasaki were burning so brightly that pilots two hundred miles away could see the blaze. The J...

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