The Snapshots in Time Collection
Railroad Right-of-Way Through Devastated Landscape, Hiroshima, Japan, Post-Atomic Bomb, 1945
Railroad tracks cut through an otherwise barren, rubble-strewn field in this photograph of Hiroshima taken after the atomic bombing of August 6, 1945. Toppled utility poles and scattered debris are nearly all that remain visible for hundreds of yards in every direction, illustrating the near-total leveling of the area closest to the blast. Project: 218164