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The atomic bomb and the fallout of America's world-changing invention

· By Michael Weissenstein
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This is a 1960 photo of a U.S. nuclear weapon of the uranium bomb Little Boy type that was detonated over Hiroshima in World War II, the world’s first atomic bomb used in combat. (AP Photo/U.S. Department of Defense via AP, File)

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