On Tuesday, Hiroshima marks the 68th anniversary of the day the United States dropped an atom bomb named "Little Boy" on the Japanese city.
At 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber called the Enola Gay dropped a bomb that instantaneously killed an estimated 60 to 80,000 people. The final death toll stood at a grim 140,000.
Three days after the United States bombed Hiroshima, it dropped a second atom bomb in Nagasaki killing tens of thousands, and ultimately leading to Japan's surrender in World War II.
The Atomic Bomb Dome, a symbolic memorial that withstood the destruction of the bomb, has played a central role in the commemoration of the lives lost.
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