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A Blank in the Weather Map (空白の天気図, Kuhaku-no Tenki-zu) is a non-fiction book written by Japanese author Kunio Yanagida and published in Japan in 1975. The book is about the Hiroshima Meteorological Observatory in 1945. Hiroshima was fully destroyed in the Atomic Bombing on August 6, 1945.
English: Mission map for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 6 and August 9, 1945. Scale is not consistent due to curvature of Earth. Scale is not consistent due to curvature of Earth. Angles and locations are approximate.
1929 - Hiroshima University of Literature and Science established. [3] 1945 August 6: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima by US forces. [9] Population: 137,197. [10] 1947 Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony begins. [citation needed] Shinzo Hamai becomes mayor. 1949 - Hiroshima University [3] and Hiroshima Stock Exchange [5] established. 1950
It’s been 75 years since the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima — marking the end of World War II and the dawn of the nuclear age — but survivors like Masaaki ...
At 8:15 a.m. on Aug 6, 1945, U.S. B-29 warplane Enola Gay dropped a bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" and obliterated the city, killing 140,000 of an estimated population of 350,000, with thousands more ...
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively.The bombings killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (広島平和記念公園, Hiroshima Heiwa Kinen Kōen) is a memorial park in the center of Hiroshima, Japan.It is dedicated to the legacy of Hiroshima as the first city in the world to suffer a nuclear attack at the end of World War II, and to the memories of the bomb's direct and indirect victims (of whom there may have been as many as 140,000).
“It’s too late to stand up after everyone dies,” said Masaaki Takano, 82, who walked home from school amid toxic "black rain" that followed the blast.