The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 6 and 9, 1945) are two exceptional cases in the history of mankind of the combat use of nuclear weapons. Implemented by the US Armed Forces at the final stage of World War II against Japan.
In the early morning of August 6, 1945, the American B-29 Enola Gay bomber, named after the mother of the crew commander, Colonel Paul Tibbetts, dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb, equivalent in power to 13-18, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. kilotons of TNT. The fuse of the 4-ton ammunition went off 43 seconds later at the Ayoi Bridge, 600 meters from the Shima Hospital, where doctors were treating seriously ill children. Three days later, on August 9, 1945, the Fat Man atomic plutonium bomb, equivalent to 19 to 21 kilotons of TNT, was dropped on the city of Nagasaki by pilot Charles Sweeney, commander of the B-29 Bockscar bomber. As a result of the two explosions, 80 thousand people instantly died; by the end of 1945, the total number of deaths, including cancer and radiation sickness, ranged from 90 to 166 thousand people in Hiroshima and from 60 to 80 thousand people in Nagasaki.
The Hall of Remembrance:
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This monument, which expresses the time of the bombing, was built with a fountain to console those who died without having been given the water they so desperately wanted. Around the monument is debris which was burned and broken by the bombing (discovered during the construction of the Memorial Hall). Looking at the monument from the front, visitors face the direction of the epicenter.
From the Upper Level, you descend the slope to the Hall of Remembrance counter-clockwise, back in time to Hiroshima just after the bombing.
On the right-side wall of the slope are six panels which explain the background leading to the atomic bombing and the outline of damage.
There are countless black dots visible on the walls of the slope and the walls of the Hall of Remembrance: there are bits of soil which were excavated from the soil layer at the time of the bombing during the construction of the Memorial Hall. They have been mixed in with the materials of the walls.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome)
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The Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome) was the only structure left standing in the area where the first atomic bomb exploded on 6 August 1945. Through the efforts of many people, including those of the city of Hiroshima, it has been preserved in the same state as immediately after the bombing. Not only is it a stark and powerful symbol of the most destructive force ever created by humankind; it also expresses the hope for world peace and the ultimate elimination of all nuclear weapons.
As a result of the atomic bombing on August 6, 1945, it was severely damaged, but survived, despite the fact that horizontally it was only 160 meters from the epicenter – the Ayoi Bridge in the shape of the letter “T”. The building partially collapsed from the shock wave and burned out from the fire; all people who were in the building at the time of the explosion died. After the war, the Dome was not restored (but was strengthened to prevent further destruction), and became the most famous exhibit associated with the atomic explosion. In 1996, despite the objections of the Chinese and American authorities, the Genbaku Dome was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The building was designed in 1915 by the architect Jan Letzel, a Czech by nationality, in a European style that was unusual for the Japanese at that time. Before the war, it hosted industrial and trade exhibitions, and with the outbreak of the war, various administrative offices were located.
Children’s Peace Monument
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The Children’s Peace Monument (原爆の子の像, Genbaku no Ko no Zō, lit. “Atomic Bomb Children Statue”) is a monument for peace to commemorate Sadako Sasaki and the thousands of child victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. This monument is located in Hiroshima, Japan. Sadako Sasaki, a young girl, died of leukemia from radiation of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
00:00 on the to way Peace Memorial
02:00 Peace Memorial
06:14 The Hall of Remembrance
14:50 on the way to Genbaku Dome (Atomic Dome)
17:50 Genbaku Dome (Atomic Dome)
20:25 exploring the Park
23:30 The Peace Gong
25:00 Children’s Peace Monument
27:00 center of the memorial complex
29:40 Museum of Peace
30:30 Peace Fontaine
31:10 on the way to Hiroshima Station
34:00 Take a Shinkansen on Hiroshima Station