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MURUROA, French Polynesia — A French atomic explosion in the air above the Mururoa Atoll, 1975. PHOTO: Jean Gaumy
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HIROSHIMA, Japan — After the atomic bomb was dropped, 1945. PHOTO: Wayne Miller
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HIROSHIMA, Japan — Victims of the atomic blast, many of them suffering from radiation burns and shock, are treated in primitive conditions at the Kangyo Ginko Bank. PHOTO: Wayne Miller
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HIROSHIMA, Japan — A woman holds her child at a Shinto temple service where friends and relatives gathered to offer sympathy and money to victims' families. PHOTO: Wayne Miller
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HIROSHIMA, Japan — A Japanese soldier walks through the center of the atomic bomb blast, where army barracks once stood. PHOTO: Wayne Miller
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ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico — The epicenter of the first atomic bomb test, which the U.S. government conducted in 1945. PHOTO: Elliott Erwitt
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