Three days after Hiroshima was annihilated by the atomic bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, in what became the first nuclear attack in human history, a Mainichi Shimbun reporter took pictures of the bombed ...

The gutters and asphalt pavements, foreground, and a replica of a carbonized tatami mat -- the black portion in the back -- from the former Nakajima district are displayed in Hiroshima's Naka Ward, on ...