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The Spruce Goose is 75 years old

H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose"
The H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose" built by Howard Hughes during World War II. (National Archives)

It flew only once, for about a half mile.

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‘The first large-scale general-purpose automatic digital computer’

Mark 1
The Mark 1/ASCC in Harvard's Cruft Laboratory, April 1948. IBM.

The Mark 1 dedication at Harvard was on 07 August 1944.

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The United States drops a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

Bombing Nagasaki,
The atomic cloud rising over Nagasaki, Japan. National Archives Identifier 535795.

The US is “the first and only nation” to use a nuclear weapon. Russia is “the first state to use nuclear threats as part of a war of expansion.”