Hiroshima: 80 years since atomic bomb

(Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images)  ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Download a free worksheet ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ The story 80 years ago, on 6th August 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The aim was to force a quick end to World War Two. The bomb destroyed the city of Hiroshima and about 140,000 people were killed.  Hiroshima was the world's first nuclear attack, and it's the only time in history that nuclear weapons have been used in warfare. The threat of using nuclear weapons, and even nuclear war, is still high in the world. At the time of the Hiroshima bombings, only the USA had nuclear weapons. Now nine countries have them, including Russia, China and the UK. News headlines Hiroshima at 80: Remembering the bomb, reimagining peace Gulf News Nuclear threat still hangs over our world, 80 years on Business Times Hiroshima’s fading legacy: the race to secure survivors’ memories amid a new era of nuclear brinkmanship The Guardian Key words and phrases reimagining thinking about something in a new and different way hangs over threatens brinkmanship the act of making a dangerous situation worse to get what you want Next  Learn more English vocabulary from the news with our Learning English from the News archive. To learn phrasal verbs, watch Phrasal Verbs with Georgie.  Find a list of all our programmes.