Front page of The Knoxville Journal with the headline "Terror Bomb Hits Nagasaki". Published on August 9, 1945 the newspaper has articles relating to the dropping of the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan and Soviets attacking the Japanese in Manchukuo, now known as Manchuria. Notably, racist ethnic slurs are used to refer to the Japanese in a featured article. The use of these words reflects the heightened anti-Japanese sentiments that were fueled by World War II.