Hiroshima: Heartbreaking Photos from Aftermath

In the eight decades since the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — killing tens of thousands in seconds; dooming tens of thousands more to death by injury and radiation poisoning; and effectively ending the Second World War. Here, on the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing on August 6, 1945, photos from the dawn of the Atomic Age.