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The Very Rev ( George ) Stephen Nason was an eminent Anglican Priest in the middle decades of the 20th Century . He was born on 30 March 1901 and educated at Shrewsbury and Pembroke College , Cambridge . Ordained in 1927 he was a Curate at St Luke ' s Battersea followed by a period as Rector of Bamford . He then served his country during World War II as a Chaplain in the RNVR after which he was Dean of Gibraltar . Returning to England in 1950 he became Rural Dean of Greenwich and Deptford , following which he was Vicar of St Peter and St Paul , Hambledon , Hampshire . He died on 13 March 1975 . Hiroshima is perhaps best known as the first city in history to be targeted by a nuclear weapon when the ___MASK7___ ( USAAF ) dropped an atomic bomb on the city ( and later on Nagasaki ) at 8 : 15 a . m . on August 6 , 1945 , near the end of World War II . World War II ( often abbreviated to WWII or WW2 ), also known as the Second World War , was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945 , although related conflicts began earlier . It involved the vast majority of the world ' s nations  including all of the great powers  eventually forming two opposing military alliances : the Allies and the Axis . It was the most widespread war in history , and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries . In a state of " total war ", the major participants threw their entire economic , industrial , and scientific capabilities behind the war effort , erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources . Marked by mass deaths of civilians , including the Holocaust ( in which approximately 11 million people were killed ) and the strategic bombing of industrial and population centres ( in which approximately one million were killed , and which included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ), it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities . These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human history . Strategic bombing is a military strategy used in a total war with the goal of defeating the enemy by destroying its morale or its economic ability to produce and transport materiel to the theatres of military operations , or both . It is a systematically organized and executed attack from the air which can utilize strategic bombers , long - or medium - range missiles , or nuclear - armed fighter - bomber ___MASK42___ to attack targets deemed vital to the enemy ' s war - making capability . Hampshire (; abbreviated Hants , archaically known as the County of Southampton ) is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom . The county town of Hampshire is Winchester , the former capital city of England . Hampshire is the most populous ceremonial county in the United Kingdom ( excluding the metropolitan counties ) with almost half of the county ' s population living within the South Hampshire conurbation which includes the cities of Southampton and Portsmouth . The larger South Hampshire metropolitan area has a population of 1 , 547 , 000 . Hampshire is notable for housing the birthplaces of the ___MASK21___ , British Army , and Royal Air Force . It is bordered by Dorset to the west , Wiltshire to the north - west , Berkshire to the north , Surrey to the north - east , and West Sussex to the east . The southern boundary is the coastline of the English Channel and the Solent , facing the Isle of Wight . Hambledon is a small village and civil parish in the county of Hampshire in England , situated about north of Portsmouth .