2007-10-13
Images for session Two: August 6th, 1945
Photograph of a mock-up of the Little Boy nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945. This was the first photograph of the Little Boy bomb casing to ever be released by the U.S. government (it was declassified in 1960).
This image is a work of a United States Department of Energy (or predecessor organization) employee, taken or made during the course of an employee's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.
Source: http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/images/historical/hiroshima.jpg License: All information on this site is considered public information and may be distributed or copied.
Burn razed field 1,200 meters south of the hypocenter seen from the roof of the Higashi Police Office, Hiroshima.
Looking the disastrous scene at the hypocenter of Nagasaki from the Hospital of the Nagasaki University of Medicine 700 meters south east of the center.
A person who sat on the step evaporated, only leaving the shadow.
Sours: http://www.geocities.jp/chikushijiro2002/peace1e.html
Map of Blast and Fire Damage to Hiroshima
Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Hiroshima_Damage_Map.gif
This photographic image was published before December 31st 1956, or photographed before 1946 and not published for 10 years thereafter, under jurisdiction of the Government of Japan. Thus this photographic image is considered to be public domain according to article 23 of old copyright law of Japan and article 2 of supplemental provision of copyright law of Japan.
An atomic bombed victim had the injury dressed in the Hiroshima Hospital of the Japan Red Cross.
from original prints by Mr. Yoshito Matsushige
Copyright owner is "The Chugoku Shimbun", a regional newspaper.
Portrait of Yosuke Yamahata, photographer. (See http://www.peace-museum.org)
Don’t forget Hiroshima and Nakasaki by Takanori Matsumoto
Also see:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima
http://www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/journey/journey1.html
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