That round killed 100,000 innocent people, in a 16 square mile radius in the capital of Japan, and left a million people homeless, with nowhere to go or even a hospital close by to have their injuries treated. ... "The duration of the flash was only a fraction of a second, but it was sufficiently intense enough to cause third degree burns to exposed human skin up to a mile" (Anesi). ...

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The atomic bomb wiped out 4.1 square miles of Hiroshima. ... The smoke cloud was visible as much as 160 miles at sea and hung over the city for at least four hours. ... Twelve hours later fires in Nagasaki were burning so brightly that pilots two hundred miles away could see the blaze. ...

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