Last year, Oscar-winning director James Cameron announced he is set to helm a new World War 2 film called Ghosts of Hiroshima.

This will be his first non-Avatar directing duty since Titanic almost 30 years ago.

The film is based on the upcoming book of the same name by Avatar and Titanic science consultant Charles Pellegrino.

Ghosts of Hiroshima will follow the true story of a man who in 1945 survived the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the US to force Japanese surrender, got a train to Nagasaki and survived that second nuclear explosion too.

A trailer for the book narrated by Martin Sheen has now debuted alongside a release date set for August 5 to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the two atomic bombings.

The book and its predecessor Last Train From Hiroshima feature many eyewitness accounts by those who experienced the only two nuclear bombs ever used in warfare. Both were developed by American theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer, as depicted in Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning movie. The latter director had hoped another filmmaker would capture the Japanese side of the story – when between 150,000 and 246,000 were killed in the atomic blasts – and it looks like Cameron is the man for the job.

Not only has he had the fear of nuclear war on his mind since witnessing the Cuban Missile Crisis at age eight, but he directed two Terminator movies which deeply explored this terror. On top of that, he even met the man Tsutomu Yamaguchi that his upcoming World War 2 film is about, just days before he died at 93 in 2010.