Multiple choice

Death due to radiation was a side effect of...

  1. The D-Day landing

  2. The Bombing of Britain

  3. The Bombing of Hiroshima

  4. The attack on Pearl Harbor
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Explanation

The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945 utilized nuclear fission, which released lethal doses of ionizing radiation, causing immediate and long-term deaths from radiation sickness and cancer. The other options involved conventional warfare without nuclear weapons.

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