76 years ago today, the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of #Hiroshima by the US during World War II, killing 140,000 with thousands more dying later of illness and injuries.
Three days after the Hiroshima attack, on August 9 1945, the US dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki, southern Japan. A further 39,000 to 80,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of this attack.
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