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The Roman Catholic Church of Urakami stands out over the burn-razed cityscape of Nagasaki, in 1945, after the second atomic bomb ever used in warfare was dropped by the U.S. over the Japanese industrial center. The bombing killed more than 70,000 people instantly, with ten thousands dying later from effects of the radioactive fallout. An American journalist who sneaked into Nagasaki soon after the Japanese city was leveled by a U.S. atomic bomb found a "wasteland of war" and victims moaning from the pain of radiation burns in downtown hospitals. Censored 60 years ago by the U.S. military, George Weller's stories from the atom bombed-city surfaced in June 2005 in a series of reports in the national Mainichi newspaper. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo)