August 6, 1945 was the day that World War II took a severe turn with the atomic bomb hitting Hiroshima. ... When the atomic bomb went off over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, 70,000 lives were ended in a flash. When the atomic bomb went off in Nagasaki on August 9th, more then 60,000 people died (Hogan 1). ... That August morning was the day that started the dawn of the Nuclear Age, and with it came more than just the loss of lives. ... The number of deaths and the after effects of the atomic bomb has the world now looking at nuclear warfare in a different light. ...

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On August 2, 1939, just before WW2, Albert Einstein wrote to the President of the United States informing him of news that would change the field of science and warfare forever. ... The light was so bright that citizens from faraway communities saw the flash, and even more astonishing was the fact that a blind girl saw the flash from 120 miles away(Documentation 2). ... The first bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945 over Hiroshima. ... "The whole valley is filled with a garish light," said Father P. ... The second bomb was dropped on August 9, 1945 over Nagasaki. ...

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On August 6th, a single American plane flew over, and dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, destroying nearly 60% of the city. People were living their everyday lives in Hiroshima, and for them August 6th was just another day until "Suddenly, a strong flash of light " startled the city, Dr. ... People had never seen anything like what they just witnessed, as the sky around them went from sunshine, to being "dark and hazy " within a flash of a light. ...

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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. ...

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On August 5th, 1945 a B-29 bomber nicknamed the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb into the Japanese city Hiroshima without any warning. ... In 1905, Albert Einstein extended the Quantum Theory and said that the amount of energy of a piece of matter is equal to the mass of that body times the speed of light squared (E=Mc^2). ...

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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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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. ...

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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. ...

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