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The Mitsubishi steelworks near the detonation point was destroyed in the blast, although the torpedo factory underground, where Tsuruji Matsuzoe worked as a 15-year-old, remained relatively undamaged. A dead horse lies outside the steelworks. (Yosuke Yamahata Photo, copyright Shogo Yamahata, courtesy: IDG films, Nagasaki, 10 August 1945)