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    1942Chicago Pile-1 Shared thread 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Shared thread 1914Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Shared thread 1945Harry S. Truman Shared thread 1933Enabling Act of 1933 Shared thread 1945Surrender of Japan Shared thread

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    July 21, 1945

    Little Boy

    The famous order to use the bomb does not carry Harry Truman's signature — and his own presidential library says no explicit written use order from him is known.

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