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How American journalists covered the first use of the atomic bomb

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imageHiroshima, August 6 1945, and Nagasaki, August 9 1945. CC BY-SA

Seventy years ago this week, the US military revealed the greatest (and best-kept) secret of the Allied effort to win World War II.

The use of the atomic bomb proved to the world that it was indeed possible to make one.

But how had it been possible to keep the...

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