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270,000 A-bomb casualties forecast

About 270,000 people in Hiroshima would either be killed or injured if an atomic bomb similar to the one that destroyed the city on Aug. 6, 1945, was dropped on it again, according to a draft report by the municipal civilian protection council.

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