FILES) This file photo dated 1948 shows the devastated city of Hiroshima three years after the atomic bomb was dropped by a US Air Force B-29, 06 August 1945. Around 140,000 people, or more than half of Hiroshima's population at the time, died in the first atomic bombing 06 August 1945, with another 70,000 people perishing in the bomb dropped over Nagasaki 09 August 1945. Following the bombings, Japan surrendered 02 September 1945 to Allied forces, officially ending World War II, bringing down the curtain on the costliest conflict in history.
