I actually read 1945 first and found it so interesting that I embarked reading the entire war, starting Sep. 1, 1939. I had just read Ian Buruma's
Year Zero, a history of 1945 which drew me in.
All along the way I had screen snapped articles for a digital scrapbook, particularly anything mentioning Detroit. But since you asked, here was the big news. What's interesting is that they simultaneously released a trove of hitherto top secret information about the bomb development--such as the until then virtually unknown Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, and Hanford.
FIRST ATOMIC BOMB DROPPED ON JAPAN
NEW AGE USHERED
Day of Atomic Energy Hailed by President, Revealing Weapon
HIROSHIMA IS TARGET '
Impenetrable' Cloud of Dust Hides City After Single Bomb Strikes
Japanese Solemnly Warned Most Closely Guarded Secret FIRST
A Sobering Awareness of Power Explosive Charge Is Small Investigation Started in 1939
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