Three American servicemen pose amid the ruins of Hiroshima, Japan, in the aftermath of the atomic bombing of August 6, 1945. The scorched, skeletal remains of a masonry building and a mass of charred wreckage in the foreground testify to the unprecedented destructive power unleashed on the city. Photographs like this one, taken by American occupation personnel touring the devastated city in the months following Japan's surrender, remain among the most sobering visual records of the atomic bombings and their aftermath. Project: 218248