In a flash on the 6th of August 1945 with the detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb and the death of 80,000 mainly civilians in Hiroshima, an unimaginable horror was unleashed; a whole city flattened and its population killed or maimed.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings 75 years ago
Hiroshima shortly after the atomic bomb was dropped. Source: Getty Images
In the dying days of the Second World War 75 years ago, the nuclear age dawned.
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