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The bomb and its aftermath

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Every day, 10am to 4pm Saturday 12 July to Sunday 14 September

Open 9:30am—5pm during school holidays

Twenty-one days after the first successful detonation in the desert at Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA, an atomic bomb was detonated over Hiroshima, Japan on 6 August 1945, and three days later over Nagasaki. What brought World War II to an end, ended an estimated 160,000 - 240,000 lives and changed our world.

We are honoured to display three artefacts on loan from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, and to tell the stories of their young owners on that terrible day.

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