On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki three days later brought a scale of destruction the world had never seen. Many who survived the blasts died in the weeks, months and years that followed.

Inside a tiny museum in San Francisco's Japantown, there is a powerful message about the atrocities of the atomic bomb."Americans see the bomb as a beautiful mushroom cloud, and the Japanese who were on the ground see it as ground zero,