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US center gifts atomic bomb images to Hiroshima museum

by Thomas WATKINS WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — Days after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, an Army leader briefed a group of top government officials at the Department of War in Washington. The officer, Major General Leslie Groves, carried with him a bundle of photos that may have shocked even those war-hardened men. In fine resolution, the black-and-white pictures depicted the two mushroom clouds that defined the course of […]