Photos: Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Before and After the Bombs (Madison Horne)
Before the 1945 atomic blasts, they were thriving cities. In a flash, they became desolate wastelands. In early August 1945, warfare changed forever when the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, devastating the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and killing more than 100,000 people. America’s immediate goal was to hasten Japan’s surrender, end World War II and …