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The atomic bomb is dropped on hiroshima
The USA drops an atomics bomb on the jamanese city Hiroshima. -
The caused deaths
Killing an estimated 80,000 people. -
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Hiroshima
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The shor term effects
By the end of 1946, injury and radiation brought total casualties to 90,000–140,000.The population before the bombing was around 340,000 to 350,000. Approximately 69% of the city's buildings were completely destroyed, and another 7% severely damaged. -
Censorship
The attack was restricted during the occupation of Japan, and information censored until the signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty in 1951, restoring control to the Japanese -
The memory for those who died
The oleander is the official flower of the city of Hiroshima because it was the first to bloom again after the explosion of the atomic bomb in 1945. -
Hiroshima peace
In 1949, a design was selected for the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, the closest surviving building to the location of the bomb's detonation, was designated the Genbaku Dome or "Atomic Dome", a part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum was opened in 1955 in the Peace Park. -
Long term effects
Deformed babies were still being born due to the amount of radiationj created by the atomic bomb -
Research in to health
An epidemiology study by the Japanese Radiation Effects Research Foundation states that from 1950 to 2000, 46% of leukemia deaths and 11% of solid cancer deaths among the bomb survivors were due to radiation from the bombs, the statistical excess being estimated to 200 leukemia and 1700 solid cancers
