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The Atomic Bomb and the Nuclear Age

The text of an eyewitness account of the Trinity bomb test, 1945.

The text of an eyewitness account of the Trinity bomb test, 1945.

Citation Information: “Eyewitness Account of the Trinity Explosion,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/18d5fdc8103daa3f0579ef09c104b501.

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Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.

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The text of an eyewitness account of the Trinity bomb test, 1945.

President Harry S. Truman’s written approval, in late July 1945, to drop the atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan.

A 1959 photograph of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial.

The “Enola Gay” was the Boeing B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

A film showing the destruction of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima.

This 1955 civil defense film, “Duck and Cover,” teaches children how to respond to an atomic attack.

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