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100 Days in Photographs

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This photograph of a Japanese mother and child in the wreckage of Hiroshima was taken four months after the atomic bomb landed on the city in August of 1945. The bomb, dubbed "Little Boy," released an explosion equivalent to 15,000 tons of TNT on Hiroshima. The tail gunner of the B-29 that dropped the bomb described the devastation as "like bubbling molasses down there ... the mushroom is spreading out ... it's like a peep into hell." Learn more and buy the book: 100 Days in Photographs: Pivotal Events That Changed The World. Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt