Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
This Day in History

All right. You’ve covered your ass, now.
Bush receives the fateful PDB that then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice would later deride as “historical.” And we all know how well that turned out…

Also on this day in 1945 — the first use of nuclear weapons (not nookyular weapons, Mr. President) in war.
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