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Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Thursday, August 6th. I'm Nailaboodoo. Here's how we're making

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But first, today's one big thing is how modern technology has made the nuclear arms race more dangerous than ever. That's the sound from earlier this week, the blast in Beirut that caused the deaths of at least 135 people.

It came about 48 hours before the 75th anniversary of the U.S. dropping a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima.

While the explosion in Beirut was not nuclear,

the blast happening so close to this anniversary

has put the devastating impact of such explosions at the top of many people's minds.

What I thought about when I saw the Beirut blast is this is probably the largest explosion

that's been caught on video that most of us have ever seen certainly

now I've ever seen live at least and yet that's just the fraction of the size of

the Hiroshima nuclear bomb we're talking about less than 2% the size of what was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

Brian Walsh is exios' future correspondent, but he's been looking back at our past,

including what happened when the US dropped the first of two atomic bombs on Japan.

A short time ago, an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima.

So if an explosion that's that much smaller can do the kind of

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