Chilling Photo 1

Soviet doctor Leonid Rogozov was on an expedition in a remote part Antarctica in 1961 when he realized he was suffering from appendicitis and would die if his appendix wasn’t removed. As the only doctor on the expedition, he had to perform the surgery on himself, and miraculously, he recovered just fine.

Chilling Photo 2

This photo was taken seconds after the U.S. dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The bomb at Hiroshima had already caused massive destruction, but it’s likely that this photographer still didn’t know the danger they were in.