Nagasaki day, 69 years

69 years ago, at 11:02 Japan time, just 3 days after the first atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima, a second bomb exploded over Nagasaki, destroying a third of the city's area, killing instantly 74,000 people and atrociously wounding other 75,000...

The "ground zero", the explosion's hypocenter is marked today by the Hypocenter Cenotaph, the black monolith in the middle of this photo. The surrounding area is a beautiful but incredibly sad park, and as written on the monument plaque, it stands as "a symbol of the aspiration for world harmony".