Hiroshima bombed
August 6, 1945
At 8:15 a.m. a single uranium bomb detonated nineteen hundred feet above the Japanese city. A three-mile firestorm consumed the center. Some seventy thousand died instantly; perhaps twice that number in the weeks after from burns and radiation. The city's name entered the language as a word for what weapons could do.
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- Liberation of the camps · Europe · War
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- V-E Day · Europe · War
- Hitler kills himself in the bunker · Europe · War
- Nagasaki bombed · East Asia · War
- Yalta Conference carves up postwar Europe · Europe · Politics
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