This photograph looks across a devastated section of Hiroshima toward the hills beyond, showing scorched trees and rubble in the foreground and a cluster of surviving reinforced-concrete buildings in the distance. The reddish diagonal mark is a flaw in the original photographic print, not a feature of the scene. Such images illustrate both the catastrophic destruction at ground zero and the uneven pattern of survival among structures built to withstand fire and blast. Project: 218164