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Archive - August 6th, 2025 : 80 years since Hiroshima Atomic Bombing. 

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On August 6th, 1945 the city of Hiroshima was destroyed when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" was dropped by the Enola Gay, a US B-29 bomber. 70,000 people were killed instantly, and tens of thousands would die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning. 

Collection Japanese 1945

photo @ Shunkichi KIKUCHI/MAGNUM distribution.
A view of Hiroshima... 

Wayne Miller 1945

JAPAN. Hiroshima. September 8, 1945. Center of atomic bomb blast.... 

Wayne Miller 1945

JAPAN. Hiroshima. September 8, 1945. Destruction caused by the... 

Wayne Miller 1945

JAPAN. Hiroshima. September 8, 1945. The epicenter of the atomic... 

Wayne Miller 1945

JAPAN. Hiroshima. September 8, 1945. A woman holds her child... 

Wayne Miller 1945

JAPAN. Hiroshima. September 8, 1945. Victim of atomic bomb blast... 

Wayne Miller 1945

JAPAN. Hiroshima. September 8, 1945. Victims of the atomic blast... 

Werner Bischof Estate 1951

JAPAN. Town of Hiroshima. Memorial for the victims of the atomic... 

Werner Bischof Estate 1951

JAPAN. Hiroshima. 1951. A victim of the Hiroshima atomic explosion.... 

Collection Japanese 1945

A view of Hiroshima from Higi-Yama, a hill which rises in the... 

Collection Japanese 1945

photo @ Shunkichi KIKUCHI/MAGNUM distribution. 

Collection Japanese 1945

Collection Japanese 1945

photo @ Shunkichi KIKUCHI/MAGNUM distribution.
A view of Hiroshima... 

Collection Japanese 1945

JAPAN. Hiroshima. 1945. A primary school building located in... 

Collection Japanese 1945

photo @ Shunkichi KIKUCHI/MAGNUM distribution.
Emergency workers... 

Collection Japanese 1945

The ruins of a hospital building in the center of Hiroshima.
photo... 

Collection Japanese 1945

photo @ Shunkichi KIKUCHI/MAGNUM distribution.
A primary school... 

Wayne Miller 1945

JAPAN. Hiroshima. September 8, 1945. Destruction caused by the... 

Wayne Miller 1945

JAPAN. Hiroshima. September 8, 1945. Japanese workers begin cleaning... 

Wayne Miller 1945

JAPAN. Hiroshima. 1945. Victims of the atomic blast are treated... 

Wayne Miller 1945

JAPAN. September 8, 1945
Japanese attend the Shinto (memorial)... 

Wayne Miller 1945

JAPAN. Hiroshima. 1945. Japanese doctor in the operating room.... 

Wayne Miller 1945

JAPAN. Hiroshima. 1945. Japanese medical corpsmen in their quarters... 

Wayne Miller 1945

JAPAN. Hiroshima. 1945. Victims of the atomic blast are treated... 

Wayne Miller 1945

JAPAN. Hiroshima. 1945. Victims of the atomic blast are treated... 

Philip Jones Griffiths 1985

JAPAN. On an anniversary of the 1945 dropping of the first 

Chris Steele-Perkins 2005

JAPAN. Hiroshima. Mr Hideo Kimura stands where he was when he... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 2005

JAPAN. Hiroshima. Ms Kiyomi Kouno with a painting she made of... 

Philip Jones Griffiths 1995

JAPAN. Hiroshima. 1995. Lanterns float on a river on the anniversary... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 2000

JAPAN. Hiroshima. Commemorating the anniversary of the atom bombing... 

Philip Jones Griffiths 1995

JAPAN. 1995. People burn incense at the shrine to the dead in... 

Philip Jones Griffiths 1995

JAPAN. 1995. Doves released at annual memorial service held... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 2005

JAPAN. Hiroshima. Folded, origami, paper cranes have become a... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 2005

JAPAN. Hiroshima. Schoolchildren pay their respects at the Children's... 

Peter Marlow 2000

Japan. Hiroshima. A model of the uranium packed atomic bomb dropped... 

Peter Marlow 2002

'Little Boy' a replica of the H-Bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima,... 
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