The Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall right after the atomic bombing in Aug., 1945. After the war the building was preserved and turned into the Hiroshima Peace Memorial.

Two specters haunt the leaders of the U.S., Germany, Italy, France, Japan, Canada and the U.K. as they convene in Hiroshima, Japan, for the G-7 summit: the Doomsday Clock and the ghost of Harry S. … ...

The etched shadow of a passerby that remained imprinted on the road surface of Yorozuyo Bridge due to the heat of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and the same location now (inset).

There are also then-and-now images of Urakami Cathedral, destroyed by the bomb that hit Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Urakami Cathedral (Image: Reuters ) An estimated 185,000 died in the two attacks.

Eighty years ago, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and ...

On the morning of 6 August 1945, most of Hiroshima was destroyed when the US dropped its first atomic bomb directly over the ...

In 1945, the American military detonated an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, killing thousands of people instantly. Today, memorials and exhibitions symbolizing peace offer visitors new insights into ...

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Day the sky turned black Back then, Terao had been living with his mother and two brothers in a rented second-story room about four kilometers (2.5 miles) north of the city.

As another August 6th approaches, let me tell you a little story about Hiroshima and me: As a young man, I was probably not completely atypical in having the Bomb (the 1950s was a great time for ...

Reuters photographer Issei Kato sourced archive images of the cities in the aftermath of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings and revisited the same locations today. 09 August 2015 • 8 ...