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80 Years On, The Photos of the Hiroshima Bombing Still Shock

80 Years On, The Photos of the Hiroshima Bombing Still Shock

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Split image: Left shows a ruined building amid devastation in Hiroshima; right shows a black-and-white photo of a large mushroom cloud rising after the atomic bomb strike in 1945.

Eighty years ago on August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay aircraft dropped a 9,000-pound uranium-235 bomb named ‘Little Boy’ on the city of Hiroshima -- devastating it and the lives of hundreds of thousands.

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