An atomic cloud hangs over the Japanese city of Nagasaki after the U.S. dropped a second nuclear bomb on the country on Aug. 9, 1945. (Hiromichi Matsuda, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain) By Scott Ritter / Consortium News On June 18, 1945, President Harry Truman, who had taken over the... read full story
"the initial use sufficiently spectacular for the importance of the weapon to be internationally recognized when publicity on it is released."