The force from which the Sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.” While many Americans (and not only Americans) took these words to mean that Imperial Japan was truly defeated-and World War II was almost over-others recoiled at the prospects for the future signaled by what Truman called this “new and revolutionary increase in destruction.” ![]() It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. ![]() Sixteen hours after the Enola Gay dropped the “Little Man” atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, killing some 100,000 people, President Harry Truman announced to the American public and the world the nature of this new weapon. Credit: US Army Photographic Signal Corps. Top Image: Detonation of an underwater atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll, July 1946.
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