How many people died at the hiroshima atomic bombings?
On August 6, 1945, the nuclear weapon Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima by the crew of the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay, directly killing an estimated 70,000 people. By the end of the year, injury and radiation brought total casualties to 90,000-140,000. [8] Approximately 69% of the city’s buildings were completely destroyed, and 6.6 percent severely damaged. Research about the effects of the attack was restricted under Allied occupation, and information censored until the signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty in 1951, restoring control to the Japanese.
