Military History

On August 15, 1945, all the radio stations in Japan broadcast a message from Emperor Hirohito in unison. The entire nation awaited those words with impatience and feared what they might come to mean. Days ago, the United States had bombarded the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons, leaving hundreds of thousands dead and an unimaginable level of destruction.

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