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75 Years Ago Today |
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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Thu Aug 6 11:32:34 2020 The US Army dropped Little Boy, the world's first operational atomic bomb (the Trinity prototype had been successfully detonated in the New Mexico desert three weeks before) on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, leveling the metropolis and killing tens of thousands. Three days later, Fat Man destroyed Nagasaki, leading to the unconditional surrender of Japan the following week, ending World War II. Debate over the use of these then-new weapons persists to this day, and the United States remains the only country ever to use nuclear weapons in anger. |
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