It is the morning of August 6th, 1945 in Hiroshima.

It's been three months since Germany surrendered in the Second World War and Japan has missed the Allied deadline

to surrender by nine days. Millions of Japanese civilians are displaced, having fled their homes

due to the air raids and propaganda leaflets warning that their cities would be bombed,

and this included a third of Hiroshima's population.

For those that have remained though, it's a hot and humid day of 26 degrees Celsius and the sky is clear.

The city is set against a backdrop of rolling mountains and bridges it is known as the

city of water after all. Here old Japan meets new

Japan. Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines sit side by side cinemas, shops,

and military installations.

At about 7 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese early warning radar net detects what it suspects

to be an American aircraft.

But the people in the city are getting ready for what they believe

is just another day. Children old enough to go to school are making their way in. Those two

young play on sunny verandas while their parents get ready for a day's work in the city or at home.

War is very much still happening, but it's important to remember that so is life.

That is until an alert is given at the spotting of an American aircraft and

radio broadcasting is stopped. At around 8 o'clock, however, the Japanese radar operator determines that the number of planes

coming in is so small that the air raid alert can be lifted.

15 minutes later, the world's most destructive weapon is dropped.

The world's most destructive weapon is dropped. At a quarter past eight, the American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops a uranium atom bomb over the city of Hiroshima.

It causes a blinding white-blue flash, a fireball with a temperature of more than a million

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