Tag Archives: Hiroshima

Hiroshima: “Intense heat”

Posted on August 7, 2019 by Christopher George

Unidentified Photographer, [Severely damaged printing presses, Chugoku Shimbun Building, Hiroshima], October 28, 1945 (2006.1.357) Building 50: Chugoku Shimbun Building. 5I, GZ3000. First story of reinforced concrete Building 50. Shows newspaper printing press severely damaged by fire which gutted building. Hiroshima: … Continue reading →

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Hiroshima: “Devastated by blast and fire”

Posted on August 7, 2019 by Christopher George

Unidentified Photographer, [Burned-over landscape north of ground zero in the vicinity of Hiroshima Castle], October 31, 1945 (2006.1.278) 4H, GZ3200. Looking southeast from Hiroshima Castle. Shows group of unburned blast-destroyed, combustible buildings 3,200 feet northeast from GZ (3,700 feet from … Continue reading →

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Hiroshima: “a blinding flash and the overpowering heat and wind”

Posted on August 6, 2019 by Christopher George

Yoshito Matsushige, [Dazed survivors huddle together in the street ten minutes after the atomic bomb was dropped on their city, Hiroshima], August 6, 1945 (1464.2005) Yoshito Matsushige, [Dazed survivors huddle together in the street ten minutes after the atomic bomb … Continue reading →

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The United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Physical Damage Division

Posted on August 6, 2019 by Christopher George

United States Government, The United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Physical Damage Division, The Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, Volume I, May 1947, p.42 (2011.23.1) United States Government, The United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Physical Damage Division, The … Continue reading →

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Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum at Ground Zero

Posted on August 6, 2019 by Christopher George

At 0816 hours 6 August 1945, one of three B-29s over Hiroshima dropped the first atomic bomb ever used for military purposes. An eyewitness who was 2% miles west of the city stated: “I saw a single enemy airplane flying … Continue reading →

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Hiroshima, 1945

Posted on April 23, 2017 by Christopher George

Unidentified Photographer, [View of burned-over area with Hiroshima Kirin Beer Hall at far right], October 16, 1945 (2006.1.23) Unidentified Photographer, [Burned-over landscape, looking east from Grid 6H], October 31, 1945 (2006.1.18) Unidentified Photographer, [Burned-over landscape, looking northwest from Grid 5I, … Continue reading →

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Six Schools in Hiroshima, 1945

Posted on May 27, 2016 by Christopher George

Unidentified Photographer, United States Government, [Interior damage to steel frame of Honkawa Grammar School Auditorium, Hiroshima], November 8, 1945 (2006.1.629) Ground Zero 1,100 Unidentified Photographer, United States Government, [Blast- and fire-damaged ruins of Takeya Grammar School, Hiroshima], October 28, 1945 … Continue reading →

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August 6, 1945

Posted on August 6, 2015 by fansinaflashbulb

Carl Mydans, Hiroshima, directly after the fog cleared. Catholic Church in foreground, 1945 (1395.2005) Bernard Hoffman, [Residents wander cleared streets bisecting the ruins of buildings reduced to piles of rubble by the atomic bomb, dropped a few months earlier], 1945 (1784.2005) Unidentified … Continue reading →

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Odamasa Store, Hiroshima

Posted on August 6, 2014 by fansinaflashbulb

United States Strategic Bombing Survey, [Distorted steel-frame structure of Odamasa Store, Hiroshima], November 20, 1945 (2006.1.68) On November 1945, merely three months after the United States detonated an atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, U.S. President Harry … Continue reading →

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The Aestheticization of Violence and the Aestheticization of Banality

Posted on January 28, 2014 by fansinaflashbulb

A modern method of destruction (total obliteration) for a modern way of life! Nations are built on violence. The United States of American gained hegemony after the Second World War was ended through the use of two nuclear weapons in … Continue reading →

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