The permanent outlines or shadows of the victims. Hiroshima s nuclear shadows are history s most haunting graffiti via the sun aside from a massive psychic scar on the soul of humanity the nuclear bombs dropped on japan left behind something else. Legs splayed back bent one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open.
It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease. When i first went to hiroshima in 1967 the shadow on the steps was still there. The lies of hiroshima are the lies of today 6 august 2008.
Mitsuno ochi who had been waiting on the bank s footsteps was gone as well albeit leaving behind a haunting shadow. Organic elements including plants animals and humans were burnt leaving the ground where they walked or sat less damaged than the surrounding area. Three days later another nuclear attack engulfed the city of nagasaki.
Data obtained from the japanese surveys found that 8 psi 55 kpa was sufficient to destroy all wooden and brick. Most buildings except reinforced or blast resistant structures will suffer moderate damage when subjected to overpressures of only 35 5 kilopascals kpa 5 15 pounds force per square inch or 0 35 atm. Much of the destruction caused by a nuclear explosion is due to blast effects.
On august 6 1945 the us dropped an atomic bomb on hiroshima that destroyed most of the city and killed 80 000 citizens instantly. Hiroshima today looks completely different than it did 73 years ago. Such was the ferocity of the blast eerie shadows of incinerated humans were.
At 8 15 local time this morning a bell tolled in hiroshima to mark the exact moment the devastating bomb was dropped. The surface of the bomb burned 10 000 degrees fahrenheit and vaporized nearly. When little boy detonated 1 900 feet above the city a flash of brilliant boiling light scorched all that it touched.
Universal history archive getty images the shadow of the hiroshima man seated on the sumitomo bank steps.
Nuclear shadows today. The shadows at hiroshima are a haunting reminder of the brutality of the bombing that occurred on august 6 1945 a us b 29 bomber detonated a nuclear weapon on the city of hiroshima destroying much of the architecture and killing more than 70 000 people instantly miraculously there were some survivors. The intense heat of the atomic explosion caused what are called nuclear shadows. Human shadow etched in stone japanese.
The nuclear shadows of hiroshima.
The nuclear shadows of hiroshima. Human shadow etched in stone japanese.
The intense heat of the atomic explosion caused what are called nuclear shadows. The shadows at hiroshima are a haunting reminder of the brutality of the bombing that occurred on august 6 1945 a us b 29 bomber detonated a nuclear weapon on the city of hiroshima destroying much of the architecture and killing more than 70 000 people instantly miraculously there were some survivors.
