December 2012 Auction Ends Tuesday, December 18th, 5pm Pacific

Lot #991:

''New York Times'' Announces First Atomic Bomb Drop -- ''Missile is Equal to 20,000 Tons of TNT; Truman Warns Foe of a 'Rain of Ruin'''

7 August 1945 ''New York Times'' announcing ''First Atomic Bomb Dropped on Japan'' in a 2'' high headline. Printed the day after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the history-altering event unfolds in myriad articles. Headlines include ''New Age Ushered'', '''Impenetrable' Cloud of Dust Hides City After Single Bomb Strikes'', ''Atom Bombs Made in 3 Hidden 'Cities''' and ''Steel Tower 'Vaporized' In Trial of Mighty Bomb''. Section one only, runs 38pp. and measures 16.5'' x 22.5''. Toning, some chipping at edges and paper loss at seam. Very good.