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July 2, 2011
After 1945 1,150 US military personnel and civilians, including photographers, were sent to record the destruction of Hiroshima as part of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey. The goal of the Survey's Physical Damage Division was to photograph and analyze methodically the impact of the atomic bomb on various building materials surrounding the blast site, the first "Ground Zero."
The U.S. government then restricted the circulation of images of the bomb's deadly effect.
The landscape of Hiroshima, looking northeast, with the Hiroshima Telephone Company Western District Exchange visible in the distance.October 27, 1945
There is now an exhibition at the International Center of Photography. The photographs, which have been in the museum’s permanent collection since 2006, have been declassified for decades, but had been lost.
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