‘Is There Anyone Alive?’: 7 Stories From Hiroshima And Nagasaki

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Combined with a similar nuclear strike on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, the attacks helped lead to Japan’s surrender during World War II and the end of the conflict in the Pacific—and decades’ worth of debate over the choice.

Here are seven TIME stories about the devastation and the implications of the decision to bomb the cities...

‘Is There Anyone Alive?’: 7 Stories From Hiroshima and Nagasaki