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title: The Evening Star, daily edition, front page (Washington, D.C., August 7, 1945)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/evening-star-washington-1945-08-07/
description: Front page of The Evening Star of Washington, 7 August 1945, the day after the Hiroshima bomb. The banner reads 'JAPS ADMIT GREAT ATOMIC BOMB DAMAGE'.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** 1945 U.S. newspaper front page using the ethnic slur 'Japs' in its banner headline, with a wartime cartoon. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![The Evening Star, daily edition, front page (Washington, D.C., 1945-08-07)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/evening-star-washington-1945-08-07.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/evening-star-washington-1945-08-07.jpg)

# The Evening Star, daily edition, front page (Washington, D.C., August 7, 1945)

Front page of The Evening Star of Washington, 7 August 1945, the day after the Hiroshima bomb. The banner reads 'JAPS ADMIT GREAT ATOMIC BOMB DAMAGE'. The lead story is built from a Japanese Domei news-agency dispatch broadcast by Tokyo radio and monitored by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission; other items carry the President's announcement, reaction in Congress, the Vatican and Britain, and a cartoon of a helmeted warrior facing a robed figure.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
The Evening Star
WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1945—TWENTY-SIX PAGES.   5 CENTS
An Associated Press Newspaper

JAPS ADMIT GREAT ATOMIC BOMB DAMAGE

Weapon Sent Down By 'Chute, Exploded In Air, Enemy Says
'Destructive Power Cannot Be Slighted,' Broadcast Concedes
By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7.—The new atomic bomb that shook Hiroshima was dropped from an American plane by parachute and exploded before it hit the ground, a Japanese Domei news agency dispatch broadcast by the Tokyo radio said today. [...]

Vatican Paper Expresses Fears Over Bomb's Use

New Ultimatum Based on Atomic Bomb Predicted

Nomura Warns Japs U.S. Will Not Accept Compromise Terms

President Due Here Tomorrow; Report Awaited
Truman Gives News Of First Atomic Bomb To Crew Of Augusta

Members of Congress Believe Atomic Bomb Will Shorten War

Jap Naval Arsenal At Toyokawa Blasted In Super Fort Raid

Splitting of Atom, as Told in Star in 1939, Big Step in Development of Great New Bomb

[cartoon caption, signed] THERE'S NOT ROOM FOR THIS ... AND YOU IN THE SAME WORLD!

[remaining body text not transcribed]
```

Read from the 1600 px page image. Only the banner, the headlines, the first sentence of the lead story and the cartoon caption are transcribed; '[...]' and '[remaining body text not transcribed]' mark omitted text.

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