Handout #1 Photographs of the Bombing, Damage, and Injury
Some of the pictures set out below may be disturbing to sensitive children.
Damage to Buildings and Property
View of the Hypocenter
From website entitled “Damages Caused By Atomic Bomb”
Hypocenter and Atomic Bomb Dome
U.S. Army/A-Bomb WWW Museum
Hiroshima Business Area
U.S. Army/A-Bomb WWW Museum
Pavement on the Aioi Bridge near hypocenter blown upward by the blast bouncing off the river
Photo by Toshio Kawamoto from City of Hiroshima Website
A building near the hypocenter
US Army photo from City of Hiroshima Website
Damage to a primary school
from “Photographs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”
Atomic Shadows on a Bridge
from “Photographs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”
Shadow of Leaf on a Telephone Pole
U.S. Army/A-Bomb WWW Museum
Shadow of Man on steps of bank; probably sitting there waiting for it to open; Flash was 1,000 to 2,000 degrees; his body absorbed the heat, sheltering stones he was sitting on from the effects of the flash; from “Photographs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”
Injury to People
Some of the pictures set out below may be disturbing to sensitive children.
Burn Victim/Photo by Masami Onuka From City of Hiroshima Website
Burn Victim/Photo by Masami Onuka
From City of Hiroshima Website
Boy Exposed 1.5 miles from Hypocenter
U.S. Army/A-Bomb WWW Museum
Sister and brother who lost their hair two months after the bombing;
After effects killed boy (smaller figure) in 1949 sister in 1965;
Photo by Toshikichi Kikuchi; from City of Hiroshima Website
Soldier just prior to death showing lost hair bleeding gums, and purpura from hemorrhaging beneath the skin
Photo by Gonichi Kimura; from “Photographs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki” also on City of Hiroshima Website
Burns in the pattern of clothing
from “Photographs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”
Group of Burn Victims
from “Photographs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”
Incinerated
from “Photographs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”
Keloid Scars on a Woman’s Back
from “Photographs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”