The Bombing of Nagasaki, Part Two

A Japanese military photographer documented the immediate aftermath of an atomic bomb, capturing a "monochromatic, soundless, hell."

Photograph by Yosuke Yamahata

Yosuke Yamahata arrived in Nagasaki by train at 3 a.m. on August 10, 1945, just hours after the city was decimated by an American atomic bomb. In total darkness, Yamahata trudged towards the epicenter of the blast, nearly tripping on the corpses of humans and animals along the way.

“A warm wind began to blow. Here and there …