The horrors of Nagasaki faithfully replicated those in Hiroshima three days earlier. Those who had taken shelter emerged afterward to find a dystopian hellscape, the sun blotted out and fires advancing, the terrain reshaped and unrecognizable. As in Hiroshima, the cloud of dust and smoke overhead eclipsed the sun, and the scene was suffused in a macabre reddish glow. The region around ground zero was made up mostly of smaller wooden dwellings of traditional Japanese architecture, and they had been almost entirely flattened, vaporized, or burned away.
