Eighty years ago, on 6th August 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The attack aimed to force a quick end to World War Two. The bomb destroyed the city and killed approximately 140,000 people.
Hiroshima was the world’s first nuclear attack and remains the only time nuclear weapons have been used in warfare.
The threat of nuclear weapons persists globally. At the time of the bombing, only the United States possessed nuclear weapons. Today, nine countries have them, including Russia, China, and the United Kingdom.
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