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salomon changed. A flash of light and a wall of fire destroyed a city and demonstrated that mankind possessed the means to destroy itself.Why do we come to this place, to Hiroshima We come to ponder a terrible force unleashed in a not-so-distant past. We come to mourn the dead, including over 100,000 Japanese men, women an
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