This painting was created by Ashitsuka Mura, who was 27 at the time of the bombing of Nagasaki. Mr. Ashitsuka witnessed the blast from Takashima-machi, an Island off of Nagasaki harbor. A gigantic atomic cloud climbed up into the sky over Nagasaki, at its base a sea of fire... the city of Nagasaki had vanished. Not too long after the devastating blast the sky was darkened with heavy storm clouds, and a terrible black rain began to fall. All of the radioactive ash, smoke, and particle waste of the vaporized city was carried into the atmosphere by the mushroom cloud - and it came back to earth in the form of large, radioactive black droplets that splashed across everything for miles around.