Hoping to finally end World War II, the United States dropped an atomic
bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. Three days later, the U.S.
dropped another massive bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. The result was total
devastation. Within seconds of the blasts, more than 120,000 men, women
and children died. Thousands more would die from radiation sickness in
the months to come. The war was over but the ongoing fear of nuclear
destruction had begun.