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A Tale of Two Cities (1946 film)

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The film describes chronologically, and for the most part, dispassionately, the testing and the use of the atomic bombs impact on Hiroshima, describing where the bomb was actually dropped, and the damage done to military industrial targets, as well as noting which edifices sustained less damage, like
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At the end, the film takes a rather sober view of the future of atomic power, showing an "atomic shadow" of someone in the Hiroshima blast, saying that this could be someone of any race or creed, and that the future of atomic power could help mankind, or destroy it, depending on how people use it.
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that he would use more nukes if they didn't surrender. The Nagasaki mission is described, showing the two plants that were the basic targets, and the valley that they planned to bomb, and then shows the mushroom cloud, "the funeral pyre of an aggressor nation".
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priest, who describes his experience, and notes that he believes that approximately 100,000 people died.
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Then the film moves on to Nagasaki, telling the audience that U.S. President
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those built with reinforced concrete. An interview is shown with a
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