A Place of Hope

Inspired by a walk in the Peace Garden, Hiroshima, Japan.

At 08:15 on 6 August 1945 the first atomic bomb exploded 580 meters above Hiroshima. The centre of the explosion reached a temperature of several million degrees centigrade.

Approximately 140,000 people died either immediately or by the end of the year and about 200,000 by 1950.