What were the short and long term effects of the dropping of the atomic bombs?

The original purpose of dropping atomic bombs were to, instead of sending in troops, drop an atomic bomb on your city of choice and wipe out everyone in a mile's radius. That is the short term effect. But the long term effects include nuclear radiation which poisons people in a much larger radius, while contaminating the environment for an extended period of time.
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