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Hiroshima

Atomic bomb damage in the city of Hiroshima, 1945
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Was the US justified in dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War?

Scientists Frederic Joliot-Curie and his wife, Irene, at work in their Paris laboratory in December 1932. The couple were among a wide-ranging group of scientists whose work paved the way for the atomic bomb. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
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Hiroshima: the race to the atomic bomb

This photo dated 1948 shows the devastated city of Hiroshima some three years after the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city on 6 August 1945, at the end of World War 2. Around 140,000 people, or more than half of Hiroshima's population at the time, died in the first atomic bombing – with another 70,000 people perishing in the bomb dropped over Nagasaki 9 August 1945. (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/Getty Images)
Second World War

In pictures: the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Ministry Of Home Defence (Scientific Advisers' Branch), A view of the devastation caused by the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima in Japan on 6 August 1945. (Photo by IWM via Getty Images)
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The science behind the bombing of Hiroshima

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11 shocking moments in history

Ruins of Hiroshima shortly after the dropping of the atomic bomb. (US Air Force/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
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Timeline: the countdown to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima

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