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Mushroom cloud of atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

ATOMIC BOMB DROPPED ON HIROSHIMA FOLLOWED BY WARNING OF A RAIN OF RUIN

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb (code-named “Little Boy”) on Hiroshima, Japan, that instantly killed an estimated 66,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare.         President Truman issued the following statement: “It was to spare the Japanese people from utter destruction that […]