30 POSTERS GIVE US A SENSE OF WHAT HAPPENED IN AUGUST 1945 AT HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI (Numbers in margin refer to number of picture in display)
There was no discrimination in what the bombs destroyed: homes, businesses, banks, schools,
06 A BOMB DAMAGE An analysis of the A bomb damage. Physical energy was released in three forms heat, blast, and radiation. The radiation continues to work many years beyond the initial blast. We are good at observing physical damage. What we often miss is the psychological and emotional trauma. All of these physical and emotional trauma are compounded because the A Bomb blast destroys the entire fabric of the society upon which it is unleashed. 07 A scientific analysis of the atomic bomb and a description of what each bomb contained, how it was constructed. 08 Pictures of Hiroshima and Nagasaki before the bombs 09-11 Three pictures taken immediately after the bombing show widespread death, widespread destruction 12 Pictures of disaster as drawn by survivors AN A BOMB DOES DAMAGE 3 DIFFERENT WAYS HEAT RAYS BLAST SUPER HI TEMPERATURES 13 HEAT RAYS Can you imagine temperatures over 1.8 million degrees F? That was the temperature at the epicenter of the atomic blast. Heat rays from this blast brought temperatures on the ground to 5400 - 7200 degrees Fahrenheit. Pictures depict charred images in wake of the blast 14 BLAST In addition to the heat the bombs create super high pressure air. This causes air to expand at an enormous rate and create a huge blast. This blast crushed all buildings within 1.2 miles of the blast. Pictures show buildings which were blasted.. 15 SUPER HIGH TEMPERATURE FIRE Heat rays from the bombs ignited everything combustible near the center. Total area reduced to ashes: 8 square miles in Hiroshima, 6.7 square miles in Nagasaki. Pictures show fire and devastation. Damage to human bodies come in the form of ACUTE DISORDERS and AFTER EFFECTS. Acute disorders come from a combination of heat rays, blast, and radiation. After effects come mainly from radiation. 16-17 ACUTE DISORDERS are immediate death or death within a very short time, skin burned off, skin filled with glass, eyes popped out of head, loss of hair, damage to body cells, damage to blood forming and other organs, weakened immune systems. Many died in buildings which collapsed and burned.
But after effects continue. These after effects include various forms of cancer. Some cancers were evident within five years, others took as long as thirty years to become apparent. Another after effect was mental retardation to unborn infants. This has become a major social problem as the survivors age, their relatives die and they are unable to live independently. Pictures show some of these after effects. 19 SADAKO SASAKI was a victim of the after effects. She was two years old at the time of the bombing. She grew up strong and healthy but ten years later developed leukemia and died within eight months. Her death resulted in children’s peace monument. Poster depicts Sadako’s picture, some of the paper cranes she folded in belief that if she folded 1000 of them she would be healed, and the children’s peace monument built in her memory. 20 Pictures of people who lived beneath the epicenter, a reminder that it is real persons who are the victims of war and nuclear attack.. 21 GETTING BACK ON THEIR FEET Despite dire shortages of food, capital, and materials of all kinds people fought off despair and struggled to rebuild their lives. Pictures show shacks being built out of unburned material and children with rationed food. 22 We can destroy buildings, churches, streetcars, but that does not destroy the human spirit. Pictures show parishioners rebuilding the cathedral and workmen rebuilding streetcar lines. 23 Pictures show assistance coming from the United States to rebuild Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Do we ever stop to ask how many times we pay for a war? We pay for the spy work, the propaganda which gets us into a war. We pay for the war itself. We pay many times to undo the damage and destruction we caused. That’s just the physical cost. We also pay in human deaths, human lives messed up (our “enemy” and our own) All the orphans and widows created by war. Do we ever ask: IS IT WORTH THE COST? 24-25 Hiroshima and Nagasaki are thriving cities today. They are working to bring hope to people throughout the world. Their message is WE NEED TO LIVE IN PEACE! 26 HAVE WE LEARNED ANYTHING FROM HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI? Today there are over 12,000 nuclear warheads in the world. Each of them is many times stronger than the bomb which annihilated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nuclear testing goes on. Even if not a single one of them is detonated they are dangerous. They are radioactive for tens of thousands of years. That radioactivity can leak into water, air, and soil. 27 Pictures show nations which have been declared NUCLEAR FREE ZONES. This is virtually the entire southern hemisphere. Pictures also show demonstrations and parades against nuclear testing. 28 Picture shows scientists who developed the bomb examining the effect of the first nuclear explosion (July 16, 1945). Another picture is a copy of a letter of 12 scientists working with nuclear bombs. This letter requests the President of the United States NOT to use the atomic bomb. This letter is dated July 17, 1945, the day after the first explosion of the bomb. 29 Pictures of memorabilia from the Hiroshima Peace Museum tell the story. A boy’s lunch box, a mother’s rosary, a child’s tricycle all reflect real person’s doing ordinary things at the time of the bombing. 30 Two pictures of partially demolished buildings left intact as a reminder of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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