The Snapshots in Time Collection

Collapsed Industrial Structure Below Terraced Hillside, Hiroshima Area, Japan, Post-Atomic Bomb, 1945

Collapsed Industrial Structure Below Terraced Hillside, Hiroshima Area, Japan, Post-Atomic Bomb, 1945

The collapsed remains of an industrial structure lie at the foot of a terraced hillside in this photograph from the Hiroshima area, taken after the atomic bombing of August 6, 1945. A lone smokestack and fragments of the building's steel framework still stand amid a dense field of shattered timber, illustrating the destructive reach of the blast even into the city's outlying industrial and agricultural districts. Project: 218164