Breaking the Silence: How America Can Confront the Sins of the Past
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HIROSHIMA, JAPAN - AUGUST 5: A visitor passes by a wall displaying a picture of the mushroom cloud when the atomic bomb was dropped. August 5, 2004 in Hiroshima, Japan.
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