Iwaka-machi residential neighborhood, Nagasaki, Japan

Here are the gutted ruins of the Iwakawa-machi residential neighborhood, 800 miles from the hypocenter.

Photograph by Torahiko Ogawa (1945)

About 800 meters south of the hypocenter. The lush roadside trees in this quiet residential neighborhood burned to ashes. The explosion had completely buried the road in rubble.

The Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum

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