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By Paul A. Tenkotte, PhD

Special to NKyTribune

On Monday, August 6, 1945, the United States’ B-29 Superfortress bomber “Enola Gay” dropped a 10,000-pound uranium nuclear weapon on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time in human history that a nuclear bomb was used in warfare. No one knows the exact immediate death toll but estimates of 90,000 people died “immediately of shortly afterward.” Three days later, on August 9th, the B-29 “Bockscar” dropped a plutonium nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. About 50,000 people died “immediately or shortly afterward, and more than 30,000 in later

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