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In September 1945 General Douglas MacArthur commanded center stage aboard the battleship Missouri as Japan’s surrender ended World War II. At 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 1945—days after atomic bombs incinerated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ushering in the nuclear age—reporters crowded into the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, …

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