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one which destroyed 60 per cent of Hiroshima. The carefully worded communique said only that the second use of the atomic bomb had occurred, leaving- to speculation all other details.Dropped at Xo»n The bomb was dropped aL noon, Japanese time—about nine hours after Red army troops supported j Russia’s declaration of war on Ja-i pan by attacking enemy forces in I eastern Manchukuo both by land ■ and by air, and while four other Japanese cities still burned from j round - the - clock B-29 incendiary 1 and demolition attacks. * iThe Japanese had had time to study the devastation wrought at Hiroshima, where they reported “practically every living thing” was destroyed as the world’s first mighty atom wrecked 60 per cent of that city of 3-13,000 Monday.More Important Nagasaki, western Kyushu seaport and railroad terminal with an (Turn to l\»ge 2 Cokmn 1)
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Thu, Aug 09, 1945
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