80 years ago, on August 6, 1945, a single shutter clicked in Hiroshima and recorded what no camera had captured before, and none has again: the immediate aftermath of a city annihilated by nuclear weapons. "Atomic testament: Yoshito Matsushige and the first photos of Hiroshima's nuclear toll."
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Yoshito Matsushige, a photojournalist, "could barely bring himself to document" what he saw. "But his five surviving images—the only known photographs of Hiroshima's destruction on the day of the bombing itself—are among the most harrowing visual records of the nuclear age." —David A. Wargowski