The photographic images of Hiroshima, Japan, in this photo essay are attempts to visually, poetically, and historically address the magnitude of what disappeared as a result of and what remains after the dropping of the A-bomb in 1945. They are images of loss and survival, fragments and ...
The explosion from the bomb, named “Little Boy,” obliterated nearly everything within 10-square kilometers (nearly four square miles) in downtown Hiroshima, killing around 80,000 people. Radiation poisoning eventually sickened others, resulting inan estimated final death tollof 192,000 souls. Ad...
Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto, at first was unhurt by the bomb and felt ashamed when he saw all the people around him hurt, but later on he fell victim to radiation sickness too. Dr. Masakazu Fujii, whose entire clinic was ruined by the bombing, but is later able to rebuild his clinic and...
This was only the beginning though, tens of thousands of innocent people died due to the aftermath of radiation exposure for another generation (Rosenberg, n.d). This day marks one of the most controversial in history. While some argue that Truman’s decision to drop the bomb was in ...
Pond of Peace: A tranquil body of water surrounding the Cenotaph for A-bomb Victims, reflecting the serene environment and serving as a place for contemplation and remembrance. Children’s Peace Monument: Dedicated to the memory of the children who perished in the atomic bombing, the...
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Hiroshima: Directed by Paul Wilmshurst. With John Hurt, Shuntaro Hida, George Elsey, Paul Tibbets. Documentary with dramatic reenactments with actors to describe what dropping the bomb on Hiroshima was like.
but its mix of pathos and cautionary rhetoric is reflective of how the despair of a country’s populace resembled a schizophrenic bedlam. While the film features passages that sentimentalize the catastrophic toll of the A-bomb,Hiroshimaalso complicates its political outlook with a two-pronged indic...
were all that remained of people who had been subjected to the intensethermal radiation. A massive mushroom cloud rose to a height of more than 40,000 feet (more than 12 km). Although less than 2 percent of the uranium-235 contained inLittle Boyhad achieved fission, the bomb was horrifyin...
Hiroshima has become a spiritual centre of the peace movement for the banning of nuclear weapons. In 1947 the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (since 1975 theRadiation Effects Research Foundation) began to conduct medical and biological research on the effects of radiation in Hiroshima. A number of...