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Hiroshima attack marks its 78th anniversary — its

Hiroshima attack marks its 78th anniversary — its lessons of unnecessary mass destruction could help guide future nuclear arms talks


The U.S. atomic bomb attacks on Japan remain the only military use of nuclear weapons. It was 8:15 on a Monday morning, Aug. 6, 1945. World War II was raging in Japan and across Europe. An American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan — an important military center with a civilian population close to 300,000 people.

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