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Manhattan Project: The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima, August 6, 1945, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of History and Heritage Resources (OSTI OpenNet), 1999.
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Little Boy detonated 1,900 feet above the city
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Memories of You: If not for the bomb / That Day 2 Devastation, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (virtual museum).
Primary record
our official estimate is 140,000 (+/- 10,000) dead by the end of December 1945, when acute radiation disorders had subsided.
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Q. How many people died because of the atomic bombing?, City of Hiroshima.
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Roughly 50% of those within 1.2 kilometers of the hypocenter are estimated to have died that day.
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United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Summary Report (Pacific War), 1 July 1946, U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, Chairman's Office, 1 Jul 1946.
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Approximately 60,000 to 70,000 people were killed, and 50,000 were injured.
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Counting the dead at Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Alex Wellerstein), Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Scholarship & press
Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital estimated 70,000 dead, and another 50,000-60,000 dead within the next two months, for a total of around 125,000 dead
The Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers headquarters put the dead at Hiroshima at 78,000 in early 1946
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