File photos of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima

On 6 August 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It was the first operational use of a nuclear weapon in history. The explosion caused an unparallelled amount of damage from a single strike: the initial blast and firestorm - coupled with nuclear radiation - killed at least 90,000 people. (Some historians believe the figure was closer to 160,000.) This glass bottle, recovered from the ruins of Hiroshima, stands as a powerful reminder of the destruction