78th Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings: Revisiting

Hiroshima & Nagasaki Archives nagasaki Nagasaki Day In 1945, during World War II, two cities of Japan witnessed a nuclear attack with an atomic bomb dropped in the city of Hiroshima on 6 August and nagasaki By the end of 1945, the blast, heat, and radiation of the nuclear attacks had killed an estimated 74,000 in Nagasaki and 140,000 in Hiroshima

nagasaki Two atomic bombs made from uranium-235 and plutonium-239 were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively early in August 1945