This photograph captures the ruins of a reinforced-concrete building in Hiroshima, one of the few structure types to withstand the initial blast of the atomic bomb detonated on August 6, 1945, though its interior was consumed by the resulting firestorm. A parked U.S. military jeep indicates this image was taken by occupation personnel touring the devastated city in the months following Japan's surrender. Photographs like this one remain among the most direct visual records of the atomic bombing's impact on Hiroshima's urban landscape. Project: 218248