The atomic bombing of Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945 -- an act that ushered in the nuclear age -- still stokes controversy 60 years on. Some 140,000 people died in the attack. Another 70,000 died when U.S. forces dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki, 593 miles (954 kilometers) southwest of Tokyo, three days later. Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945, bringing to an end the military aggression that had culminated in its entry into World War II. On the sixtieth anniversary, people around the world commemorate the victims as the debate continues about whether the move was necessary to end the war.

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