They were both major industrial centres and, on a slightly more callous level, they were still relatively intact. The US Military wished to observe the true power of the atomic bombs, so they chose two cities that hadn't already been flattened.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the only two cities to have been bombed with a nuclear bomb.
220,000 people if you combine Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bomb dropped on Hiroshima by itself killed 140,000; the one dropped on Nagasaki killed 80,000.
Hiroshima bomb: uranium Nagasaki bomb: plutonium
hiroshima and then nagasaki
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The two cities of Japan which were hit by the atomic bomb by America were "NAGASAKI" and "HIROSHIMA".
See: Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki RB
The atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima Nagasaki by the US from parachute.
A bomb was dropped in Nagasaki.
The bomb in Hiroshima was plutonium and the Nagasaki was uranium.
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Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Little boy the bomb used in Hiroshima was a uranium fission bomb. Fat man the bomb dropped over Nagasaki was a plutonium implosion type bomb.
The explosion in Nagasaki was bigger but the damage was less because of the terrain. Fat man, the bomb dropped over Nagasaki was a plutonium implosion type bomb compared with the uranium fission bomb dropped over Hiroshima.