http://www.history.com/photos/hiroshima-and-nagasaki See pictures from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. en Copyright 2013, History.com Tue, 21 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT History.com 2013-05-21T04:00:00Z en Copyright 2013, History.com http://www.history.com/photos/hiroshima-and-nagasaki/photo1 A replica of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, a plutonium-implosion bomb nick-named "Fat Man". http://www.history.com/photos/hiroshima-and-nagasaki/photo1 http://www.history.com/photos/hiroshima-and-nagasaki/photo2 A mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb rises over Nagasaki. The second atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki in August, 1945, in the last days of WWII shortly before the surrender of Japan. http://www.history.com/photos/hiroshima-and-nagasaki/photo2 http://www.history.com/photos/hiroshima-and-nagasaki/photo3 March, 1946. Eight months after the atomic bomb was dropped Hiroshima still stands in ruins. http://www.history.com/photos/hiroshima-and-nagasaki/photo3 http://www.history.com/photos/hiroshima-and-nagasaki/photo4 A Japanese man walks through the damaged lands of Nagasaki two months after the atomic bomb was dropped over the city. http://www.history.com/photos/hiroshima-and-nagasaki/photo4 http://www.history.com/photos/hiroshima-and-nagasaki/photo5 October 5, 1945. Japanese soldiers survey the damage in Nagasaki, two months after the atomic bomb was dropped over the city. http://www.history.com/photos/hiroshima-and-nagasaki/photo5 http://www.history.com/photos/hiroshima-and-nagasaki/photo6 August 13, 1945. The remains of a former elementary school and a dead tree stand in the rubble of Nagasaki a week after the atomic bomb was dropped on the city. http://www.history.com/photos/hiroshima-and-nagasaki/photo6 http://www.history.com/photos/hiroshima-and-nagasaki/photo7 October 5, 1945. Rubble and dead trees are still the dominant features of the Nagasaki landscape two months after the atomic bomb was dropped on the city. http://www.history.com/photos/hiroshima-and-nagasaki/photo7 http://www.history.com/photos/hiroshima-and-nagasaki/photo8 Only the reinforced concrete buildings of the Nagasaki Medical College hospital remain standing after the United States dropped its second atomic bomb on August 9, 1945. The hospital was located 800 meters from ground zero of the atomic bomb explosion. http://www.history.com/photos/hiroshima-and-nagasaki/photo8 http://www.history.com/photos/hiroshima-and-nagasaki/photo9 The Hiroshima Chamber of Industry and Commerce was the only building remotely close to standing near the center of the atomic bomb blast of August 6, 1945. It was left unrepaired as a reminder of the event. http://www.history.com/photos/hiroshima-and-nagasaki/photo9 http://www.history.com/photos/hiroshima-and-nagasaki/photo10 Hiroshima Memorial Park seen with modern-day Hiroshima visible in the background. http://www.history.com/photos/hiroshima-and-nagasaki/photo10 http://www.history.com/photos/hiroshima-and-nagasaki/photo11 The former Hiroshima Chamber of Industry and Commerce is preserved as a memorial. A Japanese woman, whose husband was killed in this building by the explosion, places a bouquet of flowers in a Japanese army helmet at a marker beside the gutted framework that remains. http://www.history.com/photos/hiroshima-and-nagasaki/photo11 http://www.history.com/photos/hiroshima-and-nagasaki/photo12  Millions of paper cranes, the Japanese symbol of longevity and happiness, are laid about the Children's Peace Memorial throughout the year; this tradition was inspired by a 12-year-old girl who contractedleukemia and died as a result of the bombing. http://www.history.com/photos/hiroshima-and-nagasaki/photo12