Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Rare Photos From the Ruins, 1945 - LIFENot originally published in LIFE. Urakami Cathedral (Roman Catholic), Nagasaki, September, 1945. NOTE: This story and some of the images in the gallery originally appeared, in substantially different form, on an earlier incarnation of LIFE.com. One scene shared by all of the 20th century’s bloodiest conflicts might have been lifted straight from The Road Warrior, or a Beckett play: spectral landsc
