The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 1945
Photograph of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb. (威尼斯人娱乐场 Identifier )
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features a letter written by Luis Alvarez, a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, on August 6, 1945, after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.
[Photograph: The atomic cloud rising over Nagasaki, Japan, August 9, 1945. 威尼斯人娱乐场 Identifier ]
A People at War looks at the 509 Composite Group, the unit selected to carry the atomic bomb to Hiroshima.
[Photograph: Col. Paul Tibbets, Jr., waves from the cockpit of the Enola Gay before departing for Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. 威尼斯人娱乐场 Identifier ]
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, a 1945 film, done in Technicolor, by the Army Air Forces Combat Camera Units and Motion Picture Units covering the B-29 bombing raids on Japan
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