Hirosima. Pictures classified "top secret" for many years3

The Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed about 250,000 people.. and became the most dreadful slaughter of civilians in modern history.

These pictures remained classified 'top secret' for many years...

Some of the images have been published later by different means, but it's not usual to see them all together. This is the horror they didn't want us to see..but people will never forget that..

Such open-hearted story and pictures..but i wanted to share it with u.

All the watches found in the ground zero were stopped at 8:15 am, the time of the explosion.

The heat was so intense that practically everything was vaporised. The shadows of the parapets were imprinted on the road surface of the Yorozuyo Bridge, 1/2 of a mile of the hypocenter. All that was left of some humans, sitting on stone benches near the centre of explosion, was their outlines.

On August 6, 1945, 8.15 am, the uranium atom bomb exploded 580 metres above the city of Hiroshima with a blinding flash, creating a giant fireball and sending surface temperatures to 4,000C, reducing everything in an 400-year-old city to dust.

Radiation deaths were still occurring in large numbers in the following days. "For no apparent reason their health began to fail. They lost appetite. Their hair fell out. Bluish spots appeared on their bodies. And then bleeding began from the ears, nose and mouth".

Doctors "gave their patients Vitamin A injections. The results were horrible. The flesh started rotting from the hole caused by the injection of the needle. And in every case the victim died".

This photograph shows an eyeball of an A-bomb victim who got an atomic bomb cataract. There is opacity near the center of the eyeball.

Explosion-affected people. They and their children were (and still are) victims of severe discrimination due to lack of knowledge about the consequences of radiation sickness, which people believed to be hereditary or even contagious.

Hibakusha women never got married, as many feared they would give birth to deformed children. Men suffered discrimination too. "Nobody wanted to marry someone who might die in a couple of years".

These photos of devastation were taken on Agust 10, 1945, the day after the bombing of Nagasaki by Yosuke Yamahata. The city was dead. He walked through the darkened ruins and the dead corpses for hours.

In a single day, he had completed the only extensive photographic record of the atomic bombing.

Mr. Yamahata became violently ill on August 6, 1965, his forty-eighth birthday and the twentieth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. His illness was caused by the residual effects of radiation received in Nagasaki in 1945.