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Pg… 25 The Week’s Events: The War’s Ending
Pg… 26 The Week’s Events: Atom Bombs Obliterate Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Pg… 30 The Week’s Events: B–29s Almost Finish Job
Pg… 32 The Week’s Events: Editorial: The Atomic Age
Pg… 33 The Week’s Events: Refueling at Sea Revealed as Nimitz’ Secret Weapon
Pg… 34 The Week’s Events: Truman Reports to Nation, Meets with Cabinet
Pg… 36 The Week’s Events: Russia Joins the War on Japan
Pg… 38 The Week’s Events: Surrender Offer Touches Off Victory Celebrations Around the World
Pg… 38B The Week’s Events: U. S. Paid Heavy Price to Win Pacific War
Pg… 38D The Week’s Events: The Japanese Emperor Is Japan
Pg… 87B Photographic Essay: The Atomic Bomb: Its First Explosion Opens New Era
Pg… 90 Photographic Essay: Manhattan Project, by Francis Sill Wickware
Pg… 96 Science: Radar, Another of the War’s Great Secret Weapons, Is Revealed
Pg… 41 Economics: Inflation Is Chinese Tragedy
Pg… 53 Close–Up: Princess Elizabeth, by William W. White
Pg… 47 Movies: “Captain Eddie”
Pg… 65 Summer Theater: “Candida”
Pg… 69 Education: Chattanooga Students Learn to Live in Aviation Age
Pg… 75 Modern Living: Furrier Fox
Pg… 81 Sports: Rhine Regatta
Pg… 84 Art: Max Weber, by Winthrop Sargeant
Pg… 113 Music: Louis Prima Becomes New Teen–age Favorite
Pg… 2 Other Departments: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 12 Other Departments: Speaking of Pictures: Some Leaders of the Pacific Victory
Pg… 17 Other Departments: LIFE’s Reports: The Atom Bomb and Future War, by Hanson W. Baldwin
Pg… 118 Other Departments: LIFE Goes House–Fixing
Pg… 122 Other Departments: LIFE’s Miscellany: Love of Laguna Beach