70th anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bombing

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Survivors moving along the road after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1945. The US B-29 Superfortress bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb codenamed 'Little Boy' on Hiroshima on 6th August 1945, killing tens of thousands of people in seconds. By the end of the year, 140,000 people had died from the effects of the bomb. On 9th August 1945 a second atomic bomb was exploded over Nagasaki, killing more than 73,000 people. Photograph: EPA/US NATIONAL ARCHIVES

A handout image made available by the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) of the Potsdam Conference opening session in Potsdam, Germany, 17 July 1945. The Potsdam declaration demanded unconditional surrender from Japan warning it from prompt and utter destruction. President Harry S. Truman is seated foreground (back to camera), Soviet Prime Minister Josef Stalin is at right, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is at left, Secretary of State James Byrnes is seated to the right of President Truman, US Adm. William Leahy is seated two to the right of President Truman, British foreign minister Anthony Eden is to the left of Winston Churchill, Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov is to the left of Prime Minister Stalin. 06 August 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing on Hiroshima. The US B-29 Superfortress bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb codenamed 'Little Boy' on Hiroshima on 06 August 1945, killing tens of thousands of people in seconds. By the end of the year, 140,000 people had died from the effects of the bomb. On 09 August 1945 a second atomic bomb was exploded over Nagasaki, killing more than 73,000 people. The 'Little Boy' was the first ever nuclear bomb dropped on a city and a crucial turn that led to Japan's surrender in WWII. EPA/US NATIONAL ARCHIVES /

Thu Aug 06 2015 - 11:32

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