Hiroshima — Japan
The 1995 TV film depicts the decision to drop the atomic bomb from both American and Japanese perspectives — Truman's deliberations in Washington alongside the civilian experience of the bomb's detonation.
The decision to use atomic weapons was made by President Truman in July 1945. The Hiroshima bomb ('Little Boy', uranium fission) was dropped by B-29 Enola Gay on 6 August 1945. Three days later 'Fat Man' (plutonium implosion) destroyed Nagasaki, killing 40,000-80,000. Japan announced its surrender on 15 August 1945. The debate about whether the bombs were necessary or justified continues among historians.