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13. Hiroshima and Nagasaki recovered about as quickly as a lot of the other cities

Mon Apr 8, 2013, 04:26 PM

Apr 2013

What was done to them wasn't any more thorough than what happened to a lot of Axis cities in the last two years of the war - it just happened a lot more quickly.

It's really, really difficult to overstate just how absolutely flattened Japan was in 1945. The fact that they were more or less back on their feet in a decade is all kinds of astonishing.

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