- Horrifically injured locals are pictured dying on flattened streets strewn with corpses just hours after the bomb hit
- Radiation in the city was so intense that everybody pictured in the chilling images would have died soon afterwards
- The images taken 70 years ago today show mothers cradling their badly injured babies while covered in blood
- Japan is today remembering the 140,000 killed in the initial blast, as well the countless numbers who died later
"Someone who does not know the difference between good and evil is worth nothing." – Miecyslaw Kasprzyk, Polish rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust, New York Times, Jan. 30, 2005
Thursday, August 6, 2015
The nightmare aftermath of Hiroshima: Parents carry burned children past corpses and rubble in rare photographs taken during the days after atomic bomb killed 140,000 people
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