The day of the bomb: Eighty years ago today, the world’s first atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima, Japan

The annals of human history turn on specific dates. Just a few of these dates represent a clear before and after. One age gives way to another, turning on just one decisive day. Eighty years ago today, one of those days exploded in human history. On Aug. 6, 1945, a single bomb detonated over Hiroshima, Japan, and nuclear hell was unleashed.Frankly, it’s hard for us to imagine what those before us knew and didn’t know. I was born in one of the most sensitive periods of the Cold War, the nuclear f