Hiroshima buildings that survived atomic bomb to be demolished bbc.com

Image copyright AFP/Getty Images Image caption The atomic bomb destroyed thousands of buildings in HiroshimaIwao Nakanishi, 89, was in one of the buildings when the city was bombed.
"These are valuable buildings that are telling us the horror of the atomic bomb," one 69-year-old who visited the site told Hiroshima paper Yomiuri.
The US hoped that dropping a nuclear bomb - after Japan rejected an earlier ultimatum for peace - would force a quick surrender without risking US casualties on the ground.
The first bomb, dropped on Hiroshima, killed an estimated 140,000 people in total, once long-term radiation illness was taken into account.
When no immediate surrender came from the Japanese, US forces dropped a second bomb three days later, on the city of Nagasaki.