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April 3, 1946 | Australian soldiers gesture from a balcony in Hiroshima eight months after the city was destroyed by an atomic bomb during the last days of World War II. On August 6, 1945 an American bomber dropped a bomb nicknamed “Little Boy,” leveling the Japanese city and killing tens of thousands.