The rising mushroom cloud over Nagasaki, a few minutes
after the nuclear bomb was detonated.

On August 9, 1945, a second atomic bomb was dropped on
Japan by the United States, this time at Nagasaki, resulting
in Japan’s unconditional surrender.

The devastation wrought at Hiroshima three days earlier was
not sufficient to convince the Japanese War Council to accept
the Potsdam Conference’s demand for unconditional surrender.

On August 6, 1945, the United States became the first and
only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when
it dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of
Hiroshima.

At least another 60,000 would be dead by the end of the
year from the effects of the fallout.

Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan
marked the end of World War II, many historians
argue that it also ignited the Cold War.

TIM MAGUIRE

                
CAMILLE BOHANNON

                  
ROSS SIMPSON

Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan revolutionized rock
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