This sound recording captures a speech in which President Harry S. Truman described the results of the Potsdam Conference and announced the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
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This primary source comes from the Collection NBC: National Broadcasting Company, Inc., Collection.
National Archives Identifier:
1783706Full Citation: Radio Report to the Nation on the Dropping of the Atomic Bomb; 8/9/1945; Sound Recordings of Broadcasts, 1927 - 1962; Collection NBC: National Broadcasting Company, Inc., Collection; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/dropping-atomic-bomb, April 25, 2024]