One creator quoted from the Bhavad Gita saying, " I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." ... 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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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). ... Robert Oppenheimer, one of the inventors of the atomic bomb, quoted a fragment from Bhagavad Gita, "I am become death, the destroyer of the worlds(Larsen 94)." ... 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 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. ... The New York Times quoted President Truman as saying: "It was to spare the Japanese people from utter destruction that the ultimatum of July 26 was issued at Potsdam. ... 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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