The very least we can conclude is that our twenty-thousandth bomb, useful as it may be in filling the vast munitions ... will have a much higher military relevance than supremacy in the atomic ...

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. On Aug. 9, 1945, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The bombings resulted in thousands of causalities in Japan.