Japanese Toddler Crying Amongst Rubble

27th July 1946: A Japanese child sits crying in the rubble of Hiroshima a year after the city was devastated by the world's first atomic bomb attack by the USA, on August 6, 1945. In a radio broadcast 16 hours after the attack, newly appointed President Harry S. Truman said the United States had dropped the bomb "in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans." About 80,000 people died instantly in the bombing; virtually every building in Hiroshima was destroyed or damaged.