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The Cruel Climax Of World War II

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The brutal climax of World War II was something that the world can never forget. On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first atomic bomb ever produced, code-named “Little Boy”, containing 64 kilograms of uranium-235 over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb exploded 600 metres over the city and created a blast equivalent to about 15 kilotons of TNT. The explosion vapourized 80,000 people instantly and destroyed 90 percent of Hiroshima. Three days later, another American B-29 bomber dropped a second bomb, code-named “Fat Man”, containing just over six kilograms of plutonium-239. The bomb created a blast equivalent to about 22 kilotons of TNT which instantly killed 40,000 people in the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Japan
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