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Coventry remembers Hiroshima
TONY CONWAY previews a commemoration event to promote peace and reconciliation
Little Boy explodes over Hiroshima, Japan, August 6 1945 (left); Fat Man explodes over Nagasaki, Japan, August 9 1945 (right)

ON AUGUST 6 1945 an atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, and a second one on Nagasaki three days later.  

The date is etched in history as an act of war so horrific that humanity hopes it will never be repeated. 

Destruction of the two Japanese cities was almost complete along with the deaths of more than 100,000 people.  

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