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Spotlight: He Made the First Photos of Hiroshima's Nuclear Toll

By David Schonauer   Thursday August 7, 2025

In the late morning hours of August 6, 1945, a single camera shutter clicked in Hiroshima, Japan,  and recorded what no camera had ever captured before, and none has again: the immediate, lived aftermath of a city annihilated by a nuclear weapon. Equipped with one camera and two rolls of …

Read the whole story at Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.


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