This is not the Hiroshima of bloodied sculptures, corpse-strewn black-and-white rubble-scapes, mushroom clouds, and denuded domes.
In one, civil defence workers find a mother holding her infant under the rubble, dead and covered in white dust.
Inside most downtown buildings workers remained relatively calm as they evacuated down the stairwells and out onto the streets, blanketed white with debris and rubble.
Once a busy shopping and restaurant district where residents would spend evenings with their families, Salaheddine is now white with dust, broken concrete and rubble.
The vast, empty foyer of the American Red Cross's stately headquarters in Washington seemed as remote from ground zero as white marble from rubble.
The painter guided Julia gently by the arm to a neat pile of rubble, painted white, no doubt by him, to resemble curbing.
Today, white placards stand amid rubble and outside damaged buildings, marking places where Kurdish fighters were killed, and listing their names in black and red paint.
The trailer also shows Katniss visiting the Victors' Village, her home after winning the games, where she finds a fresh white rose among the rubble suggesting the recent presence of President Snow.
Built of square-cut logs with white chinking atop a rubble masonry foundation, the smokehouse is topped with a standing seam metal gabled roof.
People stayed indoors, fearful of spontaneous firefights that pockmarked the city's white coral walls and left rubble in most streets.
For a newcomer to Aden, the city's many checkpoints are little more than a blur of black, blue, red, and white flags planted in the rubble, surrounded by young men casually toting worn semiautomatic rifles.
