75th anniversary: The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Photogallery

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August 6 marks 75 years since the United States unleashed the world's first atomic bomb attack on the city of Hiroshima, followed three days later by the second and last on Nagasaki, vaporizing lives, buildings and Japan's capacity for war.

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75th anniversary: The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

A mushroom cloud rises after an atomic bomb codenamed "Fat Man" exploded after being dropped by a US Army Air Force B-29 bomber over Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945. (Reuters)

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The crew of the US Army Air Forces B-29 bomber Enola Gay commanded by Colonel Paul Tibbets, Jr. (top row C), which dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, pose in 1946. (Reuters)

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A man being treated for wounds caused by an atomic bomb is seen in Nagasaki, Japan in an undated photograph. (Reuters)

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eople walk past the devastation caused by an atomic bomb in Nagasaki, Japan March 17, 1948. (Reuters)

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Devastation caused by an atomic bomb is seen in Hiroshima, Japan in an undated photograph. (Reuters)

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Rubble caused by the atomic bomb blast is seen in Hiroshima, Japan in September 1945. (Reuters)

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Japanese representatives, Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and General Yoshijiro Umezu, Chief of the Army General Staff attend the surrender ceremonies on board the US Navy battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan. (Reuters)

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Japan's Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board the US Navy battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan on September 2, 1945. (Reuters)

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Sailors watch as Japan's Foreign Ministry representatives Katsuo Okazaki and Toshikazu Kase, and Lieutenant General Richard K. Sutherland, US Army, correct an error on the Japanese copy of the Instrument of Surrender, at the conclusion of the surrender ceremonies on board the U.S. Navy battship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan September 2, 1945. (Reuters)

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