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Tara Sonenshine, Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice in Public Diplomacy, Tufts University

Hiroshima attack marks its 78th anniversary – its lessons of unnecessary mass destruction could help guide future nuclear arms talks

Visitors to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima view a large-scale panoramic photograph of the destruction following the 1945 bombing. Carl Court/Getty Images

It was 8:15 on a Monday morning, Aug. 6, 1945. World War II was raging in Japan and across Europe.

An American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan – an important military center with a civilian population close to 300,000 people.

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