British set designer Es Devlin has created a digital artwork titled I Saw The World End to mark 75 years since the dropping of the atomic bomb over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Created with design associate Machiko Weston, Devlin's I Saw The World End display was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum (IWM). It launched on 6 August, 75 years after nuclear weapons were detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945 respectively.
The digital artwork takes the form of a "collective reading" ? a series of audio compilations collected from both British and Japanese sources sharing thoughts and accounts on the events.

Dropped over the two Japanese cities by the US, the uranium bombs were responsible for the direct killings of over 100,000 people. Approximately one week after the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan surrendered, bringing an end to World War Two.

As Devlin and Machiko explain, half of the text is spoken in English and traces the origins of the atomic bomb in both fiction, with excerpts from English writer HG Wells, and science, with passages from Hungarian-American physicist Leo Szilard.
Extracts are also shared from leaders of The Manhattan Project ? the American-led research and development team that was responsible for the first functional nuclear weapon during the second world war.

The other half of the text is read in Japanese, and simultaneously translated into English, sharing personal accounts of the two b...