The Enola Gay is the B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb, code-named "Little Boy", to be used in war, by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in the attack on Hiroshima, Japan on 6 August 1945, just before the end of World War II. Because of the bo...
Current parishioners unearth the dramatic story behind the drawings and discover that they were drawn in 1947 by students of a school less than a half-mile from where the first atomic bomb in history was detonated. The children who made them (now in their late 70s) reflect on their early ...
Hiroshima is the capital city of Hiroshima prefecture, southwestern Honshu, Japan. It was founded as a castle town in the 16th century and lies at the head of Hiroshima Bay, an embayment of the Inland Sea. On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima became the first ci
The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, killed 70,000 people initially, with tens of thousands more succumbing to radiation sickness over subsequent months and years. The explosive yield of Little Boy, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, was equivalent to about 15 kilotons of TNT; the Russian...
its picturesque landscapes and captivating landmarks, is a city that seamlessly blends the old with the new. Step outside the hotel's doors and find yourself surrounded by a tapestry of historical sites, including the iconic Nagasaki Peace Park, dedicated to the victims of the atomic bomb. Ta...
There are a lot of truly gruesome photos from World War II, as I have written aboutelsewhere. Here, for instance, is a photo of the instant of death of a young German soldier in 1943. This was not an unusual event, but the timing of the photographer certainly was. ...
which was filmed in Japan and commemorated the 50th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb as documented by the survivors, and an on-going project about September 11, 2001, for which Nawrocki was granted access to film at the site shortly after the attacks with infrared gear and HD...
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Oxygen bars were a fad for a while, I think it's kind of over now, but you can still buy cans of concentrated oxygen (they say they are about 80%, compared to the 21% natural concentration in air) meant to be inhaled for non-medical reasons. In a proper oxygen bar you sit arou...