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Brian Osgood

Public opinion is split as US marks 80th anniversary of Hiroshima bombing

A crow on August 5 flies over the Genbaku Dome, the only structure left standing in the area of Hiroshima, Japan, where the US dropped an atomic bomb [Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters]

On August 6, 1945, the United States became the first and only country in history to carry out a nuclear attack when it dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

While the death toll of the bombing remains a subject of debate, at least 70,000 people were killed, though other figures are nearly twice as high.

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