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The film crew shot 27,000 m (90,000 ft) of film, resulting in a three-hour documentary titled The Effects of the Atomic Bombs Against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The documentary included images from hospitals, burned-out buildings and cars, and rows of skulls and bones on the ground. It was classified "secret" for the next 22 years.
At the time of the bombing, Tsuboi majored in science at a Hiroshima University. Shuntaro Hida, 28 years old. Military doctor who treated Hiroshima survivors after the bombing. Satoru Fukahori, 11 years old. Orphaned; Pan Yeon Kim, 8 years old. Prior to the bombing her family immigrated to Japan from Korea to escape starvation. Etsuko Nagano ...
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial (広島平和記念碑, Hiroshima Heiwa Kinenhi), originally the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, and now commonly called the Genbaku Dome, Atomic Bomb Dome or A-Bomb Dome (原爆ドーム, Genbaku Dōmu), is part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996.
The word hibakusha is Japanese, originally written in kanji.While the term hibakusha 被爆者 (hi 被 ' affected ' + baku 爆 ' bomb ' + sha 者 ' person ') has been used before in Japanese to designate any victim of bombs, its worldwide democratization led to a definition concerning the survivors of the atomic bombs dropped in Japan by the United States Army Air Forces on 6 and 9 August 1945.
The song "Enola Gay" by British pop band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark is about the B-29 Superfortress bomber that delivered the payload of the first atomic bomb, Little Boy, over Hiroshima, and later flew weather reconnaissance for the second mission days later when Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki. The song is anti-war, and questions the ...
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Hiroshima Castle (広島城, Hiroshima-jō), sometimes called Carp Castle (鯉城, Rijō), is a castle in Hiroshima, Japan that was the residence of the daimyō (feudal lord) of the Hiroshima Domain. The castle was originally constructed in the 1590s, but was largely destroyed by the atomic bombing on August 6, 1945.