a atomic bomb detonation

For Hiroshima’s survivors, memories of the bomb are impossible to forget

Nearly 75 years after the devastating bombing that helped end World War II, the city has moved on. But the memories—and the lessons of war—endure.

A mushroom cloud billows above the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, after the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare. Three days later a second atomic bomb destroyed the city of Nagasaki. Japan surrendered on August 15, bringing World War II to an end.

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