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80 years ago, she was living in Hiroshima. She was 14 when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped. Her home was about 2 kilometers away from the hypocenter. Mushroom cloud above Hiroshima City ...
Their pictures captured the mushroom cloud from various angles ... who arrived in Hiroshima in the aftermath of the bombing. Hajime Miyatake, a photographer with The Asahi Shimbun’s Osaka ...
The men are told they will be dropping a bomb with an explosive force of ... The crew of the Enola Gay watch the rising mushroom cloud, the city below now transformed into fiery black chaos.
It exploded around 580m above Shima Hospital (Ground Zero) in central Hiroshima. At the moment of detonation, a mushroom cloud more than 12,000m high billowed up over the city. The bomb created a ...
Hibakusha: " What happened beneath the mushroom cloud is important." Sakuma Kunihiko of Hiroshima Prefecture was 9 months old at the time of the bombing. He was exposed to radiation at his home ...
The United States has begun production of a new nuclear bomb that is 24 times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima ...
A trove of over 1,500 photographs taken in the months following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has been nominated for inclusion in UNESCO’s Memory of the World register. The education ministry ...
Over the years, many atomic bomb survivors ... we’ve learned from the mushroom cloud that swelled above this city in 1945”, he urged during the solemn event at Hiroshima Peace Memorial ...