JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post 
There's a sotto voce sub-series on the destruction of Manhattan in this blog's longer series on atomic/nuclear weapons. (There are a number of them--if you're interested search those terms in the Google search box at left.) I've found three more from 1951/2 that I've included below. At some point I'll gather all of the Destroyed Cities and makes a larger post of them.
[Source: 'We have now entered the Atomic Age', artwork by Lester Quade, in 1952.]
Then, there's this copy of Mr. America, from January 1953:
Lastly there's this horrible/beautiful 1952 work by Chesley Bonestell, 'Destruction':
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