Thursday, August 6, 2015

Aftermath and Horror of Hiroshima 70 Years Ago

 Haunting: Horrifically injured locals are pictured dying on flattened streets strewn with corpses in the western Japanese city only hours after the nuclear bomb, nicknamed 'Little Boy', was dropped
Japan today commemorate the death of 140,000 people, during World war 2 when American dropped first ever nuclear bomb, called" Little boy" on Hiroshima August 6th 1945,which obliterated the Whole city.the Photo taken 70 years ago shows people severely injured and exposed to radiation who may die in the Next hours days or weeks.a second bomb  'Fat Man,' dropped over Nagasaki three days later, killed another 70,000, prompting Japan's surrender in the Second World war



                  
                   Doomed: Wrapped in bloodied bandages, families pose for photographs seemingly unaware that they'll almost certainly have been exposed to fatal levels of radiation poisoning in the aftermath of the blast
                            Dying: The haunting photographs are thought to have been taken shortly after the attack, 70 years ago today

Devastated: Hardly any buildings in Hiroshima were left standing after the massive atomic bomb blast
                        
Tragic: Wrapped in bloodied bandages, a Japanese mother cradles and breastfeeds her injured baby
                       
                     
Chaos: The unknown photographer is believed to have died shortly before his camera went on sale, as nobody could have survived the radiation levels in the area so soon after the bombing

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