The bomb and its aftermath

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.