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Does anyone know what happen 60 years ago today?
The world's first and only atomic bombings devastate two cities and bring World War II to an end.
"For 60 years the United States has agonized over its unleashing of the world's first nuclear weapon on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. President Harry Truman's decision to explode an atomic bomb over an ostensible military target -- the headquarters of the crack Japanese 2nd Army -- led to well over 100,000 fatalities, the vast majority of them civilians."
(More of the story)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/05/opinion/main763133.shtml
(Pictures from WWII)
http://www.cbsnews.com/elements/2003/08/06/world/photoessay566903.shtml
The world's first and only atomic bombings devastate two cities and bring World War II to an end.
"For 60 years the United States has agonized over its unleashing of the world's first nuclear weapon on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. President Harry Truman's decision to explode an atomic bomb over an ostensible military target -- the headquarters of the crack Japanese 2nd Army -- led to well over 100,000 fatalities, the vast majority of them civilians."
(More of the story)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/05/opinion/main763133.shtml
(Pictures from WWII)
http://www.cbsnews.com/elements/2003/08/06/world/photoessay566903.shtml