Original data used by Japan to identify Hiroshima A-bomb found

Original data used by Japan to identify Hiroshima A-bomb found

File photo taken in July 1943 shows Bunsaku Arakatsu, a physics professor at Kyoto Imperial University. He was the first expert to identify the atomic bomb dropped in 1945 on Hiroshima, western Japan, as a new type of bomb based on scientific data. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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