HISTORY: When and where were the atomic bombs dropped?

	When and where were the atomic bombs dropped?
	The first atomic bomb was dropped by the U.S. military over Hiroshima, a city in southwestern Honshu--Japan's main island--on August 6, 1945, near the end of World War II. So far about 200,000 people have died from this bomb, including from its radioactive fallout. The second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, a city in Kyushu, three days later on August 9. So far about 110,000 people have died as a result of this bombing. Japan, the only country in the world to have suffered from atomic bombings, has adopted the "three nonnuclear principles" of not manufacturing, not possessing, and not permitting the entry into Japan of nuclear weapons. Internationally, Japan is a signatory of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and, as a nonnuclear state, was one of the first countries to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in September 1996.