When the bomb exploded above Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m., the heat and radiation from the blast devastated the city, killing about 140,000 people by the end of the year.

But it is always my visits to the atomic bomb museums, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki ... actually standing on top of is the world ...

In short, while the image is real, it happened after the bombing of Nagasaki, not Hiroshima. The earliest example of the claim that the photo showed an "atomic shadow" appeared in an October 2009 ...

In the hold was an experimental bomb, codenamed Little Boy. The target: Hiroshima. In Hiroshima the air raid sirens had sounded twice that morning already. On both occasions the all clear followed ...

But Hiroshima has not been targeted. Although B-29 planes have been flying over the city, they never drop bombs. Japanese civilians have become so accustomed to the planes, they have given the B ...

I now live in Sydney, but I was born and brought up in Hiroshima. When the bomb exploded on the morning of August 6 1945, I was a 13-year-old schoolgirl. I lived 1.7 kilometres away from where the ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Kyodo ... the 80th anniversary of the United States conducting the world's first atomic bomb attack. "You alone, have the capacity... to lead the world toward the elimination ...