This photograph shows the ruins of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, whose skeletal dome survived near the epicenter of the August 6, 1945 atomic bombing and is preserved today as the Genbaku (A-Bomb) Dome. Surrounding the structure, the photograph captures the near-total destruction of the city, with flattened rubble stretching to the horizon along the banks of the Motoyasu River. Likely taken by an American serviceman during the postwar occupation, the image stands as a sobering documentary record of the first use of an atomic weapon in warfare. Project: 218248