Haunting photographs taken the day after the Japanese city of Nagasaki was hit with an atomic bomb have emerged 70 years after being confiscated by American forces.
The collection of poignant images taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese military photographer, show the flattened landscape, mass death and desperate plight of survivors immediately following the nuclear blast.
Yamahata was tasked with documenting the destruction for propaganda purposes and arrived at the scene just 12 hours later.
The collection of poignant images taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese military photographer, show the flattened landscape, mass death and desperate plight of survivors immediately following the nuclear blast in Nagasaki, Japan
Photographer Yosuke Yamahata, pictured in Shanghai in 1943 here, took the iconic snaps
Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower (left), who later became president, shaking hands with General MacArthur, who played a prominent role in the war against Japan. The photo, taken in 1946, shows a rare moment of tenderness between the two men, who are widely known to have disliked each other later on
Supreme Commander Eisenhower carrying out inspection in the historic snaps, which have not seen the light of day for 70 years
Yamahata was tasked with documenting the destruction for propaganda purposes and arrived at the scene just 12 hours later
His haunting photographs encapsulated the devastation left behind by the atomic bomb
They were requisitioned following a direct order from General Douglas MacArthur to seize and destroy any such pictures to shield the true scale of the carnage from the public back at home
The full album contains 24 photographs developed from Yamahata’s original negatives
Some of his photographs, which became iconic after featuring in a 1952 edition of Life Magazine, are considered the most complete record of the attack’s aftermath. However some were confiscated by an unidentified US military policeman in the months that followed, never to be seen again until now
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notice how the cement/stone structures are intact? Only the wooden structures are gone. If it were truly an atomic bomb and not firebombing, all would be flattened.
just saying..this could have been yet another lie.
How did the smokestacks manage to remain upright?
Most unusual.
LOL, WTF? You don’t think the nuking of Japan actually happened? Now I’ve heard everything.
Have you seen the photos of Dresden after it was firebombed? Sure, the destruction was terrible, but it’s in NO way comparable to the utter devastation shown in these post-nuke photos.
And what about the survivors in those Japanese cities? You don’t think they could tell the difference between getting nuked and being firebombed?? I can assure you, the destruction would happen a whole lot more quickly in the former case. But I suppose someone paid all those survivors to lie about their experiences, right?
It may appear odd that the smokestacks stayed upright, but that can be explained by a combination of strong construction and narrow profile (i.e., a smokestack wouldn’t catch the blast wind as easily as a flat wall). And the few buildings that weren’t TOTALLY flattened were most likely shielded from the blast by other buildings.
Merely an observation. They do stand out in stark contrast to the surrounding areas.
mountain/molehill.