LEFT: May 12, 1945 – Hiroshima, Japan – Ground Zero, Hiroshima the after the A-Bomb. Nuclear weapons have been delivered only twice in the history of warfare, both in the ending days of World War II; the first bombing was on the morning of August 6th 1945, when the United States dropped a uranium gun-type device code-named ‘Little Boy’ on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, and the last nuclear bombing occurred three days later; the second bomb was a plutonium implosion-type device code named ‘Fat Man’ dropped on the city of Nagasaki killing 120,000 civilians and twice that over time died of nuclear diseases. (Credit Image: © Keystone Press Agency/ZUMA Press Wire)
RIGHT: August 1, 1945, Paris, France: August 1945 damage from the atomic bombing of the Japanese City of Nagasaki at the end of world war two (Credit Image: © PHOTO12 via ZUMA Press)
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