70 Years Since the Dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Japan: Photos

A giant column of smoke rises more than 60,000 feet into the air, after the second atomic bomb ever used in warfare explodes over the Japanese port town of Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. AP Photo
An allied correspondent stands in the rubble in front of the shell of a building that once was a movie theater in Hiroshima, Japan, September 8, 1945 after the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare was dropped by the U.S. on August 6, 1945. AP Photo/Stanley Troutman
A mother tends her injured child, a victim of the atomic bomb blast at Hiroshima. Keystone/Getty Images
Crewmembers of the 'Enola Gay,' the American B-29 bomber which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, including co-pilot Captain Robert A. Lewis, commander and pilot Paul W. Tibbets Jr., tailgunner Staff Sergeant George Caron, and flight engineer Staff Sergeant Wyatt Duzenbury, proudly parade through New York on a jeep in the first Army Day Parade since the end of the War, April 12, 1946. Keystone/Getty Images
A replica of Little Boy, the atomic bomb that was dropped from the B-29 Enola Gay airplane on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. SSPL/Getty Images
Smoke rises around 20,000 feet above Hiroshima, Japan, after the first atomic bomb was dropped, August 6, 1945. AP Photo
A mushroom cloud rises moments after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, southern Japan, August 9, 1945. AP Photo
Aboard the cruiser Augusta, President Harry S. Truman, with a radio at hand, reads reports of the first atomic bomb raid on Japan, while en route home from the Potsdam conference, August 6, 1945. AP Photo
American bomber pilot Paul W. Tibbets Jr. stands with the ground crew of the bomber 'Enola Gay' which Tibbets flew in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Tinian Island, Northern Marianas, August 1945. AFP/Getty Images
Commanding officer and pilot Col. Paul W. Tibbets Jr. waves from the cockpit of his bomber plane at its base in Tinian, August 6, 1945, shortly before take-off to drop the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan. AP Photo/Office of War Information
The B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay' in Japan, after bombing Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. Keystone/Getty Images
Japanese people, seen September 14, 1945, use primitive methods to navigate rubble-strewn streets in a suburb four miles outside of Nagasaki, where a nuclear bomb was detonated over the city. AP Photo/ACME
A view of the devastation caused by the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima in Japan on August 6, 1945. IWM/Getty Images
The twisted wreckage of a theatre, located 800 metres from the epicentre of the atomic explosion at Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Keystone/Getty Images
A victim of the American atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, shows the burns on his arms in 1947. Keystone/Getty Images
Twisted metal and rubble marks what once was Hiroshima, Japan's most industrialized city, seen after the atom bomb was dropped here. AP Photo
Children in Hiroshima, Japan wearing masks to combat the odour of death after the city was destroyed by the first atom bomb, October 1945. Keystone/Getty Images
View of the total destruction of Hiroshima, the result of the first atomic bomb dropped in wartime, August 6, 1945. AP Photo/U.S. Air Force
The aftermath of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, by the Americans at the end of World War II. The occupants of the burned-out bus were all killed. Keystone/Getty Images
Victims of the atomic blast sit in a makeshift hospital in a damaged bank building in the centre of Hiroshima. Keystone/Getty Images
A man wheels his bicycle thorough Hiroshima, days after the city was leveled by an atomic bomb blast, Japan. The view here is looking west-northwest, about 550 feet from where the bomb landed, known as X, on August 6, 1945. Keystone/Getty Images
A victim of the atomic bomb blast over Hiroshima, in a makeshift hospital in a bank building, September 1, 1945. Wayne Miller/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
A building stands in ruins after the atomic bomb blast at Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. Keystone/Getty Images
Soldiers and civilians celebrate the annoucement of Japan's reddition after America's use of the nuclear bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, August 11, 1945. Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images