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The anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima
Clevinger
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On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Today is the 64th anniversary of that horrible event.
To quote wikipedia:
Was it necessary? Was it a war crime? How else could the US have ended the war otherwise?
To quote wikipedia:
The bombs killed as many as 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki by the end of 1945,[4] roughly half on the days of the bombings. Amongst these, 15–20% died from injuries or the combined effects of flash burns, trauma, and radiation burns, compounded by illness, malnutrition and radiation sickness.[5] Since then, more have died from leukemia (231 observed) and solid cancers (334 observed) attributed to exposure to radiation released by the bombs.[6] In both cities, the majority of the dead were civilians.
Was it necessary? Was it a war crime? How else could the US have ended the war otherwise?
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