Order to bomb Hiroshima on display

It’s just a few cryptic notations on a yellowed sheet of paper, but it changed the course of history. 

An original copy of the operations order for dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, is on display at the Museum of World War II, as the 70th anniversary of the attack was marked yesterday.

The Hiroshima bombing, and its aftermath, killed 140,000 people, ending the deadliest conflict in history and ushering in the atomic age. “To me, it’s a glimpse into what went on that day,” says Kenneth Rendell, founder of the private museum in the Boston suburb of Natick. “The average person does not realise what one of these missions would be like. I think it just humanises everything.”