Detroit and Nagasaki: Then and Now
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Tuesday marked exactly 71 years after the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, which reduced the city to rubble days after the bombing of Hiroshima. (AP Photo)
Smoke billowing over Nagasaki after the atomic bomb was dropped. (REUTERS)
The Urakami Cathedral, center, which was destroyed in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and rebuilt in 1959. (REUTERS/Issei Kato)
The city at night in 1942. (AP Photo)
Downtown Cadillac Square in 1942. Building at left foreground is the City Hall. (AP Photo)
A demolition crew razes the legendary Eastown Theatre in a blighted east side neighborhood in Detroit, in November 2015. (REUTERS/Rebecca Cook)
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. (REUTERS/Rebecca Cook)