Japanese troops in Nanking after the city's conquest, 1937.

Steam locomotive at Takanawa, seen during Japan's Meiji Restoration.

HISTORY: The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, World War II

An aerial photograph of Hiroshima, Japan, shortly after the 'Little Boy' atomic bomb was dropped, 1945. (Credit: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images)

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