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During the last stages of World War 2 the U.S. dropped leaflets throughout Japan asking for surrender. The consequences included a “Rain of ruin from the air, the likes of which have never been seen on this earth”. The Japanese public had been used to leaflet threats, so the public chose to ignore this threat as well. But On August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped the first atomic weapon in warfare of Hiroshima. Another bomb fell over Nagasaki three days later. Together, the bombs took an estimated 340,000 lives from initial impact and fallout. But it was necessary for the U.S. to drop those bombs to ultimately sa