A Story of the Atomic Bomb | Hiroshima, Nagasaki

Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the International Committee of the Red Cross: An Atomic Bomb Story

The world changed forever on August 6, 1945, when an American B-29 bomber detonated an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a 21-kiloton plutonium bomb exploded in Nagasaki.

Approximately 140,000 people died instantaneously. The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Japanese Red Cross were the first to provide humanitarian supplies on the ground in this manner.

The world now requires the assurance of a future free of nuclear weapons, and this assurance is one step closer to becoming a reality with the approval of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in 2017.