Dropping the Bomb: Hiroshima & Nagasaki

I've researched these two nuclear explosions. When radioactive levels are safer, observers on the ground are profoundly impacted by all the ruins and by the few citizens who survived. They look absolutely devastated.
Rich

It had to be done. The death toll from continuing the war would have been far greater.

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
"On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Japan surrendered to the Allies on 15 August, six days after the bombing of Nagasaki and the Soviet Union's declaration of war against Japan and invasion of Japanese-occupied Manchuria. …"...