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The melted timepiece's hands are frozen at 8.15am, the moment that the bomb - named Little Boy - that had been dropped from B-29 Bomber Enola Gay detonated.
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Robert J Oppenheimer, who is depicted by Cillian Murphy in a hit new film famously said in the moments after the first successful atom bomb test: 'I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.'
We speak to James Walther, who has been director of the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History in the US since 1996.
The attack on the city in August 1945 killed up to 130,000 people. The bomb was dropped by a crew that included Captain Robert A Lewis, who wrote a real-time account in his log book.