On This Date: The U.S. drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima

Aug. 6, 2026, 11:57 AM EDT This is an excerpt from the August 6, 2026, edition of “The Tea, Spilled by Morning Joe” newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered straight to your inbox Monday through Friday. Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima that killed more than 100,000 people. Three days later, Nagasaki was also destroyed. On August 15, Japan surrendered, ending the deadliest war that it had begun almost four years earlier.