This photograph captures the devastated landscape of Hiroshima in the months following the atomic bombing of August 6, 1945. The skeletal remains of a reinforced-concrete building stand amid a field of rubble, while stacked lumber in the foreground hints at the earliest stages of reconstruction. Two passersby move through the ruins, dwarfed by the scale of destruction. Such images, taken by American occupation personnel and journalists, provided the outside world its first documented look at the unprecedented devastation wrought by nuclear weapons. Project: 218248