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Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The Japanese cities on which the USA dropped atomic bombs in August 1945, ending the war with Japan.

Key facts

Japanese cities on which the USA dropped atomic bombs in August 1945, ending the war with Japan.
Some British scientists took part in the US Manhattan Project, which developed the bomb.

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