“Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy.”

—  Harry Truman

Announcing the Bombing of Hiroshima (1945)
Context: Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. It had more than two thousand times the blast power of the British "Grand Slam" which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare.
The Japanese began the war from the air at Pearl Harbor. They have been repaid many fold. And the end is not yet.

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