On August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay left the Pacific island of Tinian to bomb the Japanese city of Hiroshima. ... There was a tremendous fireball of white light. ... It was August 9, 1945, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, when the Japanese government did not surrender, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki . ... Japan surrendered to the Allied forces on August 14, 1945. ...

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This non-Western account made me believe for the first time that, in some respects, the dropping of the atomic bombs in Japan during August, 1945 was more deplorable than the Japanese offensive at Pearl Harbor. ... Hachiya, after meeting with troops at his hospital, relates in his diary how impressed they were with the American troops" light-heartedness, friendliness and warmth. ... I had always stoically studied August 6, 1945 as a part of the closing days of World War II. ...

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