Truman read his statement for newsreel cameras also, speaking soberly into the camera. “The Japanese began the war from the air at Pearl Harbor,” he said. “They have been repaid many fold.” At the same time, Prime Minister Attlee released a statement, and the War Department released its own, with an image of the Little Boy bomb and an aerial photograph of Hiroshima—how it appeared before the event. Immediately, American and British news sources began monitoring Japanese radio, where already, cryptic announcements were being made—rail service in and around Hiroshima had been canceled, and the
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