 | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. War Department - 1946 - 60 lapas
...American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT It...largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare". rhese fateful words of the President on August 6th, 19^5 , marked the first public announcement of... | |
 | Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers - 1966 - 516 lapas
...leveled. On 7 August President Truman electrified the world with a broadcast statement which declared : Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one...base. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT .... With this bomb we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction to supplement... | |
 | Kurt Vonnegut - 2009 - 286 lapas
...that he was a superman. So Lily sat down and pretended to read the Truman thing, which went like this: Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an imponant Japanese Army base. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons ofT.NT It had more than two... | |
 | Charles Van Doren, Charles Lincoln Van Doren, Robert McHenry - 1971 - 1530 lapas
...Sept. 9. At Nanking, Japanese sign formal surrender of forces in China. Address to the nation, 1945 Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one...That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. . . . With this bomb we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction to supplement... | |
 | Lenore Fine, Jesse Arthur Remington - 1972 - 776 lapas
...Mission At a quarter of eleven on the morning of 6 August 1945, the White House solemnly announced: "Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one...bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base." More powerful than 20,000 tons of TNT, the bomb was an atomic bomb capable of wiping out whole cities.1... | |
 | Harold Josephson - 1974 - 348 lapas
...in history." His message to the nation made the evening newspapers. "Sixteen hours ago," he began, "an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima,...British 'Grand Slam' which is the largest bomb ever used in the history of warfare. ... It is an atomic bomb. It is the harnessing of the basic power of... | |
 | Geoffrey Perret - 1985 - 516 lapas
...Potsdam Conference. In his flat, Midwestern voice Truman announced: "Sixteen hours ago (on August 6) an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima,...bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. ... It is an atomic bomb, harnessing the basic power of the universe. . . . What has been done is the greatest... | |
 | Geoffrey Perret - 1985 - 516 lapas
...Potsdam Conference. In his flat, Midwestern voice Truman announced: "Sixteen hours ago (on August 6) an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima,...bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. ... It is an atomic bomb, harnessing the basic power of the universe. . . . What has been done is the greatest... | |
 | Avner Cohen, Steven Lee, Steven P. Lee - 1986 - 514 lapas
...irrelevant, as mendacious as Truman's announcement to the American people of the bombing of Hiroshima: "Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base."8 But I believe that Clark's per se means more than this. The American people have been told... | |
 | Eben A. Ayers - 1991 - 428 lapas
...is a darned good story," I told them. "It's a statement by the president, which starts off this way: Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one...base. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT . . . "Now the statement explains the whole thing. It is an atomic bomb, releasing atomic energy. This... | |
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Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. 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... 
