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On the morning of August 6 , 1945 the United States Army Air Forces dropped the Nuclear Weapon " Little Boy " on the City of Hiroshima , followed three days later by the detonation of the " Fat Man " bomb over Nagasaki , Japan . In his 1999 book ''Downfall'', historian Richard Frank analyzed the many widely varying estimates of casualties caused by the bombings. He concluded "The best approximation is that the number is huge and falls between 100,000 and 200,000."For detailed discussion of casualty estimates for the bombings see: |
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