70 years ago: Reconnaissance planes re-visit Hiroshima and are finally able to take photographs of the damage.pic.twitter.com/WJfzTSejH9
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@wellerstein How did the results compare to their expectations?
@journeymanhisto But the Hiroshima bombing killed about four times as many people as Oppenheimer had earlier estimated.
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@wellerstein Wow, that's astonishing. What about the longer-range death toll, from radiation etc? How did that compare to initial attack? -
@journeymanhisto It depends how you calculate it. Most of those who died did so with a few months. There were long-term cancers, etc.,
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