1945 - Wreckage from each compass direction of the atomic bomb's zero point in Hiroshima is shown.
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1945 - Bomb blast destruction of a museum and village by a river on the outskirts of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb.
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1945 - American soldiers show the devastation wrought on a bank and Shinto shrine in Hiroshima by the atomic bomb.
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1945 - Atomic bomb wreckage of a school, industrial buildings and trees in Hiroshima.
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1945 - Atomic bombs are detonated.
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1945 - Bomb damage of Wittenberg Palace in Berlin.
View of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial or the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Japan, Asia with Japanese people, visitors, tourists during visit
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Over Time
The Bombing of the City
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1913 - Blasting takes place on the Cucaracha slide during construction of the Panama Canal Zone.
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1944 - Italian civilians are evacuated from San Sebastiano after Mount Vesuvius erupts, and Salerno is covered with volcanic ash.
HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI - 1945 - USAF B-29s drop atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to hasten Japan's surrender.
1954 - British forces detonate an atomic bomb.
1943 - US Marines establish a beachhead on Tarawa.
1933 - US Navy sailors and US Army soldiers inspect the immense damage done by an earthquake to Long Beach, California.
1930s - In this Frank Capra documentary narrated by Walter Huston, the League of Nations condemns Japan's invasion of Manchuria but can't get civilians across the world to care, thus ultimately ensuring our entry into WWII (narrated in 1942).
1946 - The newly-invented wrecking ball is used to demolish slums in New York's lower east side to make room for better housing.
1944 - The volcano Paricutin erupts in Mexico, heavily damaging nearby towns.
1942 - Chinese civilians are wounded in air raids by Japanese forces.
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USA - 1950s - A montage of scientists involved in making the nuclear bomb possible are followed by a detonation of such a bomb, with a hope it can be used for peace rather than violence.
1950s - USAF planes fly over the spot where a hydrogen bomb will be detonated over the Pacific, and a US Navy ship sends out men on reconnaissance.
1953 - Survivors search the rubble of their city after it was leveled by an earthquake.
Earth Zoom Animation Focusing on Hiroshima Japan with Geographic Coordinates
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TENNESSEE - 1942 - Panorama of wooden structures and water at the Douglas Dam construction site.
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1945 - Civilians cross a bombed canal on a sewer pipe in war-torn Berlin.
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SHANGHAI - 1937 - Japanese forces bomb and capture the Zhabei and Wusung districts of Shanghai, China.
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1945 - The RAF and US Army Air Force strafe Japanese installations in Burma.
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GUAM - 1945 - Orote Air Field lay in ruins after US forces retake the air base from the Japanese. 3rd Marines and 77th infantry division marching toward Agana.