A man with burns over his entire bodyat the Army Transport Quarantine Station on Ninoshima Island. August 1945. This man was exposed within one kilometer of the hypocenter of the atom bomb dropped August 6; 1945. Persons so close to the hypocenter who received direct heat rays suffered skin-destroying burns and damage to their internal tissues and organs. Most died immediately or within a few days. Photo: Masami Onuka. Hiroshima; Japan.