At 9:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945, a U.S. bomber, the Enola Gay, drops a new kind of bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The city is leveled and burned. More than 60,000 people die, relatively few of them soldiers. It is one of the largest single-day tolls of civilian deaths in the history of war. The "Atomic Age" begins.

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