Detroit and Nagasaki: Then and Now

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Tuesday marked exactly 71 years after the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, which reduced the city to rubble days after the bombing of Hiroshima.

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Smoke billowing over Nagasaki after the atomic bomb was dropped.

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The Urakami Cathedral, center, which was destroyed in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and rebuilt in 1959. 

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The city at night in 1942.

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Downtown Cadillac Square in 1942. Building at left foreground is the City Hall.

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A demolition crew razes the legendary Eastown Theatre in a blighted east side neighborhood in Detroit, in November 2015.

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Crews work on constructing the new M-1 Rail streetcar project along Woodward Avenue in Detroit, in December 2015. The city's plan to demolish half of its nearly 80,000 blighted or deteriorating structures -- nearly one in three city buildings -- is showing some signs of success.

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