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4 days ago · On July 29 and August 2, two atomic bombs -- a uranium-fuelled weapon code-named “Little Boy” and a plutonium-fuelled bomb, “Fat Man,” -- arrived on the island of Tinian in the Mariana Islands, 2,500 kilometres from Japan.
2 days ago · On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing 80,000 people instantly. The American people learned about the new weapon from a White House press release (Document D).
2 days ago · Hiroshima, city, capital of Hiroshima prefecture, southwestern Honshu, Japan. It was founded as a castle town in the 16th century and lies at the head of Hiroshima Bay, an embayment of the Inland Sea. On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima became the first city in the world to be struck by an atomic bomb.
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18 hours ago · t. e. Harry S. Truman 's tenure as the 33rd president of the United States began on April 12, 1945, upon the death of president Franklin D. Roosevelt, and ended on January 20, 1953. He had been vice president for only 82 days when he succeeded to the presidency. Truman, a Democrat from Missouri, ran for and won a full four-year term in the 1948 ...
5 days ago · Two pivotal events that contributed to Japan's surrender were the atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On the morning of August 6, 1945, the first city was hit, causing widespread ...
5 days ago · Compelling firsthand accounts from the inventors of the first atomic bomb describe the Manhattan Project. Additional accounts from scientists, reporters, and soldiers, among other primary sources, describe the development of the bomb and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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4 days ago · A grandson of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” has visited Hiroshima and urged Japan to defuse tensions among the world’s leading nuclear powers.
