The Bombing of Hiroshima

A Japanese schoolgirl tells her story of surviving the US nuclear attack on Hiroshima in August 1945.

On 6 August 1945 an American bomber dropped a nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Tens of thousands of people were killed immediately. Witness presents a vivid first-person account from the BBC archives, of a young Japanese schoolgirl who survived the attack.

(Photo: The destruction left by the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)