On the morning of August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, another bomb fell on Nagasaki. Both cities were devastated. More than 120,000 men, women, and children were killed or mortally wounded within seconds of the blast. Thousands more would die from radiation sickness. Though the bombings prompted Japan's surrender and brought about the end of World War II, they ushered in an era in which all of humanity lives under the long, dark shadow of nuclear annihilation.

Soft cover. 96 pages.

Age 9 - 12.