Rare photo of A-bomb discovered in Hiroshima

The black-and-white picture is believed to have been taken about 30 minutes after the bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, around 10 kilometers (6 miles) east of the hypocentre.

“The existence of this shot was always known in history books, but this is the first time that the actual print has been discovered,” said a curator at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

“A shot showing the mushroom cloud split into two like this is very rare.”

The photo was found among articles related to the atomic bombing now owned by Honkawa Elementary School in Hiroshima city, she said.

The best-known pictures of the aftermath of the bombing were taken from the air by the U.S. military.

An American B-29 bomber named Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb nicknamed “Little Boy,” turning the western Japanese city into a nuclear inferno and killing an estimated 140,000 in the final chapter of World War II.

Three days later another atomic bomb — “Fat Man” — was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, claiming the lives of another 70,000.

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