The bombs killed as many as 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki by the end of 1945,[1] roughly half on the days of the bombings. Since then, thousands more have died from injuries or illness attributed to exposure to radiation released by the bombs.[2] In both cities, the overwhelming majority of the dead were civilians. Six days after the detonation over Nagasaki, on August 15, Japan announced its surrender to the Allied Powers ég tel þetta meira enn þrjúþúsund, fyrir utan...