This day, 6 August, in military history

The atomic age was ushered in when on this day, August 6th, 1945, the US dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Whether the liberals like it or not, the atomic bomb kept the US and Europe safe for almost 50 years from Soviet aggression and also contributed to the downfall of the "evil empire". Although the Soviet empire collasped in 1991, the atomic bomb's usefulness as a deterent to other governments and regimes has not been diminished and will only increase once the ballistic missile shield is in place.

Also on this day, the first draft of the Constitution was debated in Philadelphia in 1787 and the electric chair was used for the first time to execute a criminal in New York in 1890. Using the electric chair as considered more "humane" than hanging at the time. The more things change, the more things stay the same.