That day, 140,000 people died. That day, light erupted from the ground, shattering both people’s lives and the air itself. That day.. history was irrevocably changed, and the future was set into an era of dimming lights. That day, the entirety of the world was set into a new age of paranoia and fear, the fear that at any moment, they could be wiped out instantly. That day was August 6. 1945, when for the first and only time since Nagasaki, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima by America. Within a split second, the near entirety of Hiroshima was turned from a well-built populated area, into nothingness. All that remained were the ashes of men, women, and children, the memories that came with them, and the crumbled wood and stone from the
