Uploaded August 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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August 6, 1945, near the end of World War II, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, August 9th, 1945, they dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

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