The Phoenix Venture's photostream

My father, Joe O'Donnell, was a U.S. Marine Corps photographer during World War II and was stationed in Japan for 7 months after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Through his camera's viewfinder, he saw first-hand the atomic bomb's devastation and it's victims. He also felt a great sense of shame, sorrow and remorse.
Volumes have been written criticizing or justifying the dropping of the bombs. The purpose of the Phoenix Venture is not to debate the subject but to allow the photographs to show what it was like in Japan, 1945 and how it could be again, but only worse.