LEST WE FORGET - TODAY 73 YEARS AGO

[Gil Boyd]

1945:At 8:15 am today 73 years ago, a US B-29 dropped a single bomb over Hiroshima, and the first atomic weapon used in warfare detonated with a 13-kiloton blast, destroying nearly 5 square miles of the Japanese city.

Over 70,000 died instantly, and tens of thousands will later perish from injury and sickness.

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