Mushroom Cloud Over Nagasaki (1945) – Lieutenant Charles Levy

Kids can never understand how massively destructive wars were decades ago. A few days after the bomb called Little Boy hit Hiroshima, Japan, the United States sent a far more powerful weapon nicknamed Fat Man on Nagasaki. Lieutenant Charles Levy, the bombardier who took the photo was impacted by the bombing.

‘Like boiling coffee,’ was how the man described the bombing and revealed that spews of white, red, and purple were visible at the time. This weapon, which killed 80,000 people, along with the atomic bomb, made the Japanese surrender. This year in 2021 will mark the 76th year World War II ended.