AP CENTURY COLLECTION / Second World War HIROSHIMA

HIROSHIMA...FILE--An allied correspondent stands in a sea of rubble before the shell of a building that once was a movie theater in Hiroshima Sept. 8, 1945. On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb instantly destroyed almost all of the houses and buildings in Hiroshima. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought about Japan's unconditional surrender. The war ended when the papers of surrender were accepted aboard the U.S. battleship Missouri on Sept. 2, 1945. (AP Photo/Stanley Troutman)