On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion killed an estimated 80,000 people. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000.

In commemoration of those lost to these tragic events, George Takei whose family was directly impacted, retells the story citing  implications felt 75 years later both in America and Japan.