Americans are divided between support and opposition for the US decision to drop an atomic bomb during World War II.
On August 6, 1945, the United States became the first and only country in history to carry out a nuclear attack when it dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
While the death toll of the bombing remains a subject of debate, at least 70,000 people were killed, though other figures are nearly twice as high.
Three days later, the US dropped another atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki, killing at least 40,000 people.
The stunning toll on Japanese civilians at first seemed to have little impact on public opinion in the US, where pollsters found approval for the bombing reached 85 percent in the days afterwards.
