The destruction from the explosion of an atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan. More than 200,000 people died in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which led to Japan�’s surrender and the end of World War II, 6 August 1945. Photograph: Anonymous/AP The destruction from the explosion of an atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan. More than 200,000 people died in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Na