aug 9, 1945 - August 9, 1945: Three days after the Hiroshima bombing, President Truman speaks to the nation in a radio address: The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. By this time, the United States had already dropped its second bomb on Nagasaki.
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aug 9, 1945
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~ 79 years ago