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This aircraft dropped the
atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
The bombs were dropped on August 6,

1945, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, and
on August 9, 1945, on Japan’s seaport town of

Nagasaki. The use of the bombs forced Japan
to surrender, officially ending World War II.

However, the death toll—thought to be as high
as a quarter of a million Japanese citizens—filled

Albert with tremendous regret. Although it was
Szilard who wrote the letter to Roosevelt that

led to the development of the bombs, Albert
knew it was the strength of his own support

that helped get the president’s
attention. When Albert DID YOU KNOW?

realized that his research was
used to help create the most Albert did not even
know about the
destructive weapon in history, Manhattan Project
his regret only deepened. until August of 1945,
when the bombs
In his later years, he would were dropped.
consider his support of the

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