6 août 1945 - The Atomic bomb

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When: The atomic bomb dropped on august 6th, 1945
Where: the bombs were dropped over hiroshima, and nagasaki in japan
Who: The atomic bomb was built by the Army Corps of Engineers' General Leslie Groves, physicists J. Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi, DuPont's Crawford Greenewalt and Kellogg's Percival Keith, MIT's Vannevar Bush, Harvard's James B. Conant, and Berkeley's Ernest O.
What: the bomb burnt up 70% of all buildings, and it killed more than 140,000 people
Why: The US wanted japan to surrender quickly, so less american lives would be lost
Impact: "In the long-term, nuclear weapons produce ionizing radiation, which kills or sickens those exposed, contaminates the environment, and has long-term health consequences, including cancer and genetic damage. "

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