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	Learn more about August 6 in the online encyclopedia.
		August 6 is the 218th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (219th in leap years), with 147 days remaining.
		1945 - World War II: An atomic bomb codenamed Little Boy is dropped by the American B-29 Enola Gay on the city of Hiroshima in Japan at 8:16 a.m., killing 80,000 outright (another 60,000 will die by the end of the year due to fallout sickness).
		August 5 - August 7 - July 6 - September 6 -- listing of all days
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /a/au/august_6.html

	[CUADPUpdate] August 6th Memories, and This & That....
		August 6 should be the day when the world community examines its conscience and consciousness, and unequivocally commits or re-commits to exorcising this spirit from its presence.
		To this end a practical step might be to employ the reality and the symbol of August 6 to honestly view what that putrid spirit subjects humanity to, once a human being allows his or her body to be its instrument on earth.
		August 6 presents to planetary humanity a universally recognizable symbol - rooted indelibly in that day's history - by which to examine not only its conscience regarding homicidal violence, but also its consciousness of homicidal violence.
	lists.compar.com /cuadpupdate/2004-August/000045.html

	NPR : Timeline: The Road to Hiroshima
		August 6,1945: The first atomic bomb to be used as a weapon is dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, at approximately 8:15 a.m.
		NPR.org, August 5, 2005 · On August 6, 1945, the United States changed the face of warfare when it dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
		August 9, 1945: Three days after the Hiroshima bombing, President Truman speaks to the nation in a radio address: “The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base.” By this time, the United States had already dropped its second bomb on Nagasaki.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4785786

	The History Place - This Month in History
		Starting from Maine on August 11, they traveled in Double Eagle II over 3,000 miles in 137 hours, landing about 60 miles west of Paris.
		August 24, 79 A.D. Vesuvius, an active volcano in southern Italy, erupted and destroyed the cities of Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum.
		He was detained by Soviet agents on January 17, 1945, and is believed to have died in prison in 1947.
	www.historyplace.com /specials/calendar/august.htm

	Surfline Robert August (June 6, 1945-)
		Robert Alan August was born into the surfing scene, the son of Blackie August, a renowned lifeguard, athlete, party host and one of the first to surf Redondo Beach.
		At 14, August was already appearing in Bruce Brown's movies, traveling extensively while maintaining a good standing at Huntington High School, where, as a senior, he was elected student body president.
		In circumnavigating the globe, August and Hyson had the luxury of being the first people to surf in many areas that had never seen a surfboard.
	www.surfline.com /surfaz/august_robert.cfm

	Dropping the A-Bomb on Hiroshima
		In the early morning darkness of August 6, 1945 the B-29 "Enola Gay" piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets lifted off the runway at Tinian Island and flew into history.
		Colonel Paul Tibbets describes dropping the A-Bomb on Hiroshima August 6, 1945.
		It was not until August 14 that Japan agreed to an unconditional surrender.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /vohiroshima.htm

	August 6, 1945 Dropping of the Atomic Bomb
		Before sunrise on August 6, 1945, the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay set off from Tinian Island in the Marianas.
		August 6, 1945 Dropping of the Atomic Bomb
		On August 10 America dropped a second atomic bomb, killing 40,000 in Nagasaki.
	www.p38lessonplan.com /atomicJ.htm

	Atomic Bomb-Truman Press Release-August 6, 1945
		On the clear morning of August 6, the first atomic bomb, nicknamed Little Boy, was dropped on the city of Hiroshima.
		Harry Truman in 1945 "regarded the [[* #Atomic-bomb#atomic] bomb *] as a military weapon and never had any doubt it should be used." In a 1958 handwritten document on the rise of the atomic age, he later stated, "Now we are faced with total destruction.
		As late as May 1945, the U.S. was engaged in heavy fighting with the Japanese at Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
	www.trumanlibrary.org /teacher/abomb.htm

	CLF Connections, Summer - Peace Day
		August 6, 1945, was a day never to be forgotten in world history.
		Sadako was two years old on August 6, 1945, the day the United States dropped an atomic bomb on her native city.
		The ones are collected by the mayor and on August 6, Peace Day, they are hung on the statue as a message of peace.
	www.uua.org /clf/connections/Summer/peace-day.htm

	December 6 - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch
		December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
		The Lennon tapes: John Lennon and Yoko Ono in conversation with Andy Peebles, 6 December 1980
		Genesis: Rogers Rangers : the first Green Berets : the corps & the revivals, April 6, 1758-December 24, 1783 (A heritage classic)
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /december_6.htm

	ATOMIC BOMB: DECISION (Hiroshima-Nagasaki)
		On August 6 and 9, 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed by the first atomic bombs used in warfare.
		Bard Memorandum, June 27, 1945 - Undersecretary of the Navy Ralph A. Bard wrote that use of the bomb without warning was contrary to "the position of the United States as a great humanitarian nation," especially since Japan seemed close to surrender.
		The Franck Report, June 11, 1945 - The Franck Report, written by a seven-man panel of scientists at the University of Chicago, urged that the bomb be demonstrated "before the eyes of representatives of all United Nations, on the desert or a barren island."
	www.dannen.com /decision/index.html

	The Time of the Bomb by Zia Mian and A.H. Nayyar
		When he was told on August 6, 1945, that America's new atom bomb had destroyed its first target, the Japanese city of Hiroshima, U.S. President Harry Truman declared "This is the greatest thing in history." Three days later, on August 9, another atom bomb destroyed the city of Nagasaki.
		In December 1945, the Nagasaki City Commission determined that because of the bombing there, almost 74,000 people had been killed and 75,000 injured.
		A 1946 survey by the Hiroshima City Council found that from a civilian population of about 320,000 on the day of the explosion: over 118,000 were killed, over 30,000 seriously injured, with almost 49,000 slightly injured, and nearly 4,000 people were missing.
	www.wagingpeace.org /articles/2005/08/06_mian-nayyar_time-of-the-bomb.htm

	Little Boy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Little Boy" was the codename given to the nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on Monday, August 6, 1945.
		The only test explosion of a nuclear weapon was with the plutonium-type, on July 16, 1945 at the Trinity site.
		This was because tests of controlled nuclear reactions with U-235 (as opposed to the uncontrolled reaction that occurs in a bomb) had already been done, and the principles involved were so simple that it was taken to be unnecessary to test the weapon in advance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Little_Boy

	Sample Essay--WP #4
		However, on the morning of August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., the Japanese city of Hiroshima was made all too familiar with this new weapon called the atomic bomb, as a United States B-29 flew over the city and released Little Boy.
		In conclusion, the morning of August 6, 1945, proved to be much more than just the time that the first atomic bomb was utilized to put an end to a war.
		On August 6, 1945, the B-29 Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets released Little Boy from an altitude of 31,000 feet, and the rest is history.
	www.skidmore.edu /~mstokes/105/atomic-bomb-sample.html

	pika don :: SE Asia & Japan :: A visit to the Peace Museum in Hiroshima
		There are scale models of the city as it stood at 8 AM on August 6, 1945 and what remained when the last fire burned itself out.
		At noon on August 15, 1945, those who had survived the war heard the Emperor's voice on the radio.
		By August 1945 most Japanese cities had been destroyed by air raids.
	www.synaptic.bc.ca /ejournal/pikadon.htm

	Figureworks: Past and future exhibitions
		She was specifically moved by the victim’s hands and her paintings symbolically developed into two series - healthy, useful hands of August 5, 1945 and the burned, deformed hands of August 6, 1945.
		The August 6th hands are quick, frenetic and jarring.
		The August 5th hands are deliberate and accurate.
	www.artnet.com /galleries/exhibitions.asp?gid=423917308&cid=71506

	Pravda.RU “My God! What have we done!?”
		August 6, 1945 Americans dropped atom bomb on Hiroshima
		Yesterday (2 August 2002) at approximately 10:00 a.m., the body of an Israeli citizen was found in the Gashuri industrial area, located near Tul-Karem More details...
		August 9, the city of Nagasaki became the target of Great Artists bomber.
	english.pravda.ru /world/2002/08/06/33966.html

	ATOMIC BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA, AUGUST 6, 1945
		That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of T.N.T. It had more than two thousand times the blast power of the British "Grand Slam," which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare.
	www.ibiblio.org /pha/policy/1945/450806a.html

	The Morality of Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Thomas Sowell -- Capitalism Magazine
		Every August, there are some Americans who insist on wringing their hands over the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, so it was perhaps inevitable that such people would have an orgy of wallowing in guilt on the 60th anniversary of that tragic day.
		Summary: Every August, there are some Americans who insist on wringing their hands over the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, so it was perhaps inevitable that such people would have an orgy of wallowing in guilt on the 60th anniversary of that tragic day.
		Time magazine has page after page of photographs of people scarred by the radiation, as if General Sherman had not already said long ago that war is hell.
	www.capmag.com /article.asp?ID=4362

	IISH - Today in 1945 : 6 August - Atomic bomb on Hiroshima
		On 6 August 1945 the American Army dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima to force the Japanese to surrender.
		IISH - Today in 1945 : 6 August - Atomic bomb on Hiroshima
		After the devastation and long-lasting effects became clear, there were always protests against testing new nuclear weapons.
	www.iisg.nl /today/en/06-08.php

	BBC - Radio 4 - August 1945
		August 1945 takes the form of daily diary, tracking the unfolding events day by day, "in real time", 60 years on.
		Presenter Chris Lowe takes us through the events from 3 August - a few days before the anniversaries of the two atomic bomb attacks - through to the first bomb attack on Hiroshima (6 August) and the second on Nagasaki (9 August).
		A short series of radio pieces to mark the 60th anniversary of the events which brought WW2 to an end: the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Japanese surrender.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/history/august1945.shtml

	AsiaSource: AsiaTODAY - A resource of the Asia Society
		This statement made by Harry S. Truman, the president of the United States from 1945 to 1953, was released on August 6, 1945, sixteen hours after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
		August 6 marks the 55th anniversary of the U.S. nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, which subsequently led to the end of the Second World War.
		David McReynolds' article from The Nonviolent Activist, analyzes the reasons behind the decision to drop the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, whether the use of the atomic bomb was necessary, and the circumstances that began the Cold War.
	www.asiasource.org /news/at_mp_02.cfm?newsid=26934

	[SAAN] Remembering what happened on August 6, 1945
		Among them was Toshiko Saeki, a 26-year-old-woman who rushed to Hiroshima from her home in the suburbs on the afternoon of August 6 1945 to search for her mother and other family members.
		The film highlighted the background of nuclear experiments conducted by India and Pakistan and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and on Nagasaki on August 9 by America.
		Now in Bangalore, Nakayama is trying to compare what is happening today in Iraq with the destruction of Hiroshima in Japan on August 6, 1945.
	www.mail-archive.com /saan_@yahoogroups.com/msg00027.html

	August 6 1945 - First Atomic Bomb Dropped on Japan; Truman Warns Foe of a 'Rain of Ruin'
		This event took place on August 6, 1945, and was reported in the The New York Times the following day.
		August 6 1945 - First Atomic Bomb Dropped on Japan; Truman Warns Foe of a 'Rain of Ruin'
		In August, 1943, a combined policy committee was appointed, consisting of Secretary Stimson, Drs.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-chat/728194/posts

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	August 6 1945
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		August is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 31 days.
		In Ireland, (in the Irishlanguage) Augest is known as Lúnasa, a modern rendition of Lughnasadh, named after the god Lugh and August 1, (Lá Lúnasa) in the Irish Calendar is stillregarded as the first day of Autumn.
	www.bodawg.com /point/45143-august-6-1945.html

	HistoryLink Essay: Atomic Bomb is dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
		On August 6, 1945 President Harry Truman announces that the United States has dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
		Atomic Bomb is dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
		During the 6 1/2 hour flight the Colonel described to the rest of the crew the 10 1/2 foot long, 9,700 pound bomb, dubbed "Little Boy." As the planes approached Japan, the two B-29 escorts pulled out and the Enola Gay continued alone.
	www.historylink.org /_output.CFM?file_ID=1351

	iafrica.com news features Remembering Hiroshima, 1945
		In April 1945, elementary school children in Hiroshima were evacuated in a group to take precautions against air raids.
		Toward the end of August, I woke up in the morning to find that my hair had come out and was lying flat on my pillow.
		On August 4 my mother came to the evacuation site to take me to a home doctor in Hiroshima.
	iafrica.com /news/features/313257.htm

	AUGUST 6, 1945 THE DAY THE WORLD SHUDDERED
		"My God," he asked himself, "what have we done?" (special report, "Hiroshima: August 6, 1945") note: Paul Tibbets was Colonel, not "Lt. Colonel," when he was the pilot of the Enola Gay.
		About one hour after the bombing on 6 August 1945.
		He was exposed to the A-bombing on August 6 in Nakajima Shinmachi (currently Peace Memorial Park), approximately 500 meters from the hypocenter.
	www.opednews.com /articles/opedne_allen_l__050806_august_6__1945_the_d.htm

	ISEA2002
		On August 6th, 1945, one of the worst horrors happened in history.
		Hiroshima became the first city in the world to be struck by an atomic bomb.
	vision.mdg.human.nagoya-u.ac.jp /isea/program/E/artists/a427.html

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