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Photo of German postage stamp honoring Otto Hahn, who discovered atomic fission.
Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard discussing about the threat of atomic weaponry.
Photo of Little Boy, the bomb that would eventually bomb the city of Hiroshima and kill over 140,000 people.
Diagram of what chemicals Little Boy contains and description of it.
The crew of Enola Gay, the aircraft that carried Little Boy to bomb Hiroshima on the 6th of August, 1945.
Commanding officer and pilot Col. Paul W. Tibbets. waves from the cockpit of his bomber plane at its base in Tinian, on August 6, 1945, shortly before take-off to drop the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan.
The Hiroshima explosion, recorded at 8:15am, August 6, 1945, is seen on the remains of a wristwatch found in the ruins in this 1945 United Nations photo.
Smoke rises 6 kilometres above Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945 after the first atomic bomb was dropped during warfare.
This picture taken from the town of Yoshiura on the other side of the mountain north of Hiroshima, Japan, shows the smoke rising from the explosion of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, Aug. 6, 1945. It was picked up from an Australian engineer at Kure, Japan.
Rubble was all that was left after the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945. U.S. President Harry Truman ordered the first use of this nuclear weapon, which contained more power than 20,000 tons of TNT, to hasten Japan's surrender.
An allied corespondent stands in the mist of rubble that was once a movie theatre in Hiroshima
Survivors of the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare are seen as they await emergency medical treatment.
Shortly after the drop of Little Boy, survivors are seen as they receive emergency treatment by military medics.
U.S. President Harry Truman, left, just back from the Potsdam conference, is shown at his White House desk with Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson in Washington, D.C., Aug. 8, 1945. They discuss the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.
At the Ujina Branch of the First Army Hospital in Hiroshima. The thermic rays emitted by the explosion burned the pattern of this woman's kimono upon her back.
A nuclear bomb victim lies in quarantine on the island of Ninoshima in Hiroshima, Japan.
Nuclear bomb victims are sheltered at the Hiroshima Second Military Hospital's tent relief center at the banks of the Ota River in Hiroshima, Japan.
Ikimi Kikkawa shows keloid scars following the healing of burns caused by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima at the end of the second World War.
Statistic image of the Hiroshima population before and after the bombing from the United States.