Japan 1945. In one of the defining moments of the twentieth century more than 100 000 people were killed instantly by two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki by US Air Force B29s. Hundreds of thousands more succumbed to their horrific injuries or slowly perished of radiation-related sickness. Hiroshima Nagasaki tells the story of the tragedy through the eyes of the survivors from the twelve-year-olds forced to work in war factories to the wives & children who faced it alone. Through their harrowing personal testimonies we are reminded that these were ordinary people given no warning & no chance to escape the horror. American leaders claimed that the bombings were our least abhorrent choice & fell strictly on military targets. Even today most people believe they ended the Pacific War & saved millions of American & Japanese lives. Hiroshima Nagasaki challenges this deep-set perception revealing that the atomic bombings were the final crippling blow to the Japanese in a stratgic air war waged primarily against civilians.