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Atomic Bomb

The Oxford Companion to United States History | 2001 | | Â© The Oxford Companion to United States History 2001, originally published by Oxford University Press 2001. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Atomic Bomb. See Hiroshima and Nagaski, Atomic Bombing of; Manhattan Project; Nuclear Strategy; Nuclear Weapons; Oppenheimer, J. Robert; World War II.

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