Photos taken day after Nagasaki A-bombing found in Chicago

Several photos taken by a Japanese soldier the day after the atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki in 1945 are housed at a warehouse of the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists online magazine on July 14, 2015, along with A-bombed objects from Hiroshima. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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