A photographic exhibition depicting the devastation caused by the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is currently being held at a Texas university, a quarter of a century after a prominent museum canceled its initial plans to exhibit artifacts amid strong opposition from veteran groups.
The exhibition, titled "Flash of Light, Wall of Fire," was organized by the University of Texas at Austin in cooperation with the Anti-Nuclear Photographers' Movement of Japan, a group of Japanese photographers working to convey the horrors of nuclear weapons to future generations.
The majority of the 69 photographs, most of which are being shown for the first time in the United States, clearly depict the devastation of the scorched earth "under the mushroom cloud." One even shows bones lining the schoolyard of an elementary school near the hypocenter.