Bomb A
In August 1945, it turned out to be not Germany, but America that succeeded in producing and using this new type of bomb. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were razed, and Japan surrendered. Germany was too late.
Goenawan Mohamad
August 22, 2022
ONE night in August, 1945, just before dinner, a British intelligence officer whispered to a detained German scientist that at 8:15am on August 6, 1945, the United States had dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima. World history changed in an instant. The German was shocked.
The information soon spread in the old manor house called “Farm Hall,” near Cambridge, 79 kilometers from London. This was the secret location where 10 Ger
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