Hiroshima's deadly legacy: a city destroyed

70 years have passed since the first atomic bomb hit the Japanese city.

A high view across the city of Hiroshima after the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city.

The bombings are credited with ending World War 2 when it forced Japanese forces to surrender.

The dome in the left of the picture was one of the only structures to survive the nuclear bomb. It still stands today as a memorial.

Here, years after the bombing in Hiroshima, young girls are forced to wear face masks to protect themselves from the harmful nuclear pollution the blasts unleashed on the city.

The effects of the bombing was felt for years in Hiroshima, and Nagasaki which was bombed days after. Children of those alive at the time suffered birth defects and complications thanks to the nuclear bomb.

Here you can see in a closer shot of the ground, just how brutally the city was flattened.

'The Enola Gay', here stationed in America, was the aircraft responsible for dropping the bomb on Hiroshima.

A present-day photo of the dome that survived the blast. It is not an official memorial to bombing victims in Hiroshima.

This week commemorations are happening to remember the victims all around Japan. In 2014, the Japanese Red Cross said they treated over 10,000 people who survived the blasts.

Today, Hiroshima has rebuilt and is a typical and pretty Japanese city.

A wall of white doves with peace messages in commemoration to the victims of the bombs, pictured this week in Hiroshima.

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