On this day, August 6, 1945, all their lives would be affected in just a noiseless flash. ... Next thing he knew a tremendous flash of light cut across the sky, he took four or five steps and threw himself between two big rocks in the garden. ... Every night she would do the same thing, but on August 6 she decided to let her tired kids sleep at home. ... He was a step beyond the window when a flash of light of the bomb reflected like a gigantic photographic flash. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The atomic bomb was again set off in Hiroshima on August 4th, 1945. ... The symptoms start out with the person feeling nauseated, weak, and light headed. ... They tell their children about it, teach it in school, and every August 6th they gather together in a park and remember together (WWW Museum para.1). ... What happened that August 6th will be remembered with the citizens of Hiroshima for years to come. ...

• Word Count: 1378
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• Grade Level: High School

Just three weeks after the leading test on august 6, a second atomic bomb was detonated, this time over the municipality of Hiroshima. Then three days later, on August 9, Nagasaki was hit. ... The amount of energy available within an atom is given by Einstein's famous formula E=MC2, where E = energy, M = the mass and C = the speed of light. ...

• Word Count: 997
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• Grade Level: High School

Only the words of General Thomas Farrel, present at the site, could fully explain the magnitude of the situation; he wrote: [The] whole country was lighted by a searing light with the intensity many times that of the midday sun. ... It lighted every peak, crevasse and ridge of the nearby mountain range with a clarity and beauty that cannot be described but must be seen to be imagined. ... By August 6, 1945, everything was ready for the Hiroshima mission. ... Shortly after, on August 14, 1945, Japan finally surrendered, and World War II came to a close. ...

• Word Count: 2170
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School