Hiroshima

Explore Hiroshima Peace Memorial (UNESCO). Japan’s UNESCO World Heritage Site portfolio covers both cultural and natural sites of exceptional value.

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On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the atomic bomb known as Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan and three days later dropped another on Nagasaki.

On two days in August 1945, U.S. planes dropped two atomic bombs, one on Hiroshima, another on Nagasaki, leading to the unconditional surrender of Japan and the end of World War II

Australia is showing a distinct lack of fortitude on the issue of nuclear proliferation, writes Gem Romuld, from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. It’s easy for Foreign Minister Julie Bishop MP to espouse commitment to achieving a world without nuclear weapons. Any government can proclaim their sincere desire for a world free ofMore

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The two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of people, and their effects are still being felt today.

Photographs -- most of them never published in LIFE magazine -- made in Hiroshima after the end of the Second World War.