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Pearl Harbor Atomic Bombing Effects
I do not think that the dropping of the atomic bombs were dropped for a good reason. Although we know that the Americans were just getting revenge for lives of the soldiers who died in the Pearl Harbor disaster makes us feel sympathetic. But I feel that bombings were unnecessary because of the effects.

The effects aftermath on the cities was catastrophic, the explosion wiped out 90% of the Hiroshima, and instantaneously killed eighty thousand workers and civilians combined. more ended up dying later on from radiation exposure which was a slow agonizing death. Three days later, another atomic b-29 bomb hit Japan, but this time on a city called Nagasaki, killing around forty thousand people. The Japanese Emperor later announced to the people


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