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On August 6 and 9, 1945 the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Two American military aircraft razed two cities to the ground

Enola Gay, you should have stayed at home yesterday: this is how Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark sang in 1980, a song that has remained the band's main success, precisely “Enola Gay”. It is the same name as the B-29 Superfortress bomber plane that became sadly infamous. On August 6, 1945, exactly 75 years ago, this aircraft dropped the first atomic bomb in history on the city of Hiroshima. The pie...

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