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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
A survivor still hospitalized in Hiroshima,
showing arm and face covered with keloids
caused by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.
Location: Hiroshima, Japan
Date taken: August 1947
Photographer: Carl Mydans
Life Images
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Survivors still hospitalized in Hiroshima,
showing their bodies covered with keloids
caused by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.
Location: Hiroshima, Japan
Date taken: August 1947
Photographer: Carl Mydans
Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/43168a6b36007ec3.html
A survivor still hospitalized in Hiroshima,
showing arms and torso covered with keloids
caused by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.
Location: Hiroshima, Japan
Date taken: August 1947
Photographer: Carl Mydans
Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/5a266d06f14d105d.html
Hiroshima in ruins following the atomic bomb
blast.
Location: Hiroshima, Japan
Date taken: September 1945
Photographer: Bernard Hoffman
Life Images
Ruins of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb blast.
Location: Hiroshima, Japan
Date taken: September 1945
Photographer: George Silk
Life Images
An aerial overview of
Hiroshima in autumn of
1945.
The hypocenter and Atom Bomb Dome are visible at top center.
U.S. National
Archives
Boston Globe > Big Picture > Hiroshima, 64
years ago August 5, 2009
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/08/hiroshima_64_years_ago.html
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
August 6 / 9, 1945
Of 320,000 people in Hiroshima that morning,
80,000 died immediately
or were badly wounded
by the A-bomb, nicknamed "Little Boy".
The site of the explosion reached a
temperature of 5,400°F.
Three days after Hiroshima,
Nagasaki was
A-bombed, with up to 40,000 killed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/nov/02/guardianobituaries.military
In the background, a Roman Catholic cathedral on a hill in
Nagasaki.
Ca. 1945.
77-AEC-52-4459.
Pictures of World War II > Japan
US National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/images/ww2-165.jpg
http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/#japan2
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/science/donald-hornig-a-bomb-scientist-and-brown-president-dies-at-92.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/10/hiroshima-nuclear-second-world-war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1945/aug/07/secondworldwar.usa
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/books/20garner.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/world/asia/07yamaguchi.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/how-i-survived-hiroshima-ndash-and-then-nagasaki-1654294.html
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/08/hiroshima_64_years_ago.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/25/hiroshima-nagasaki-survivor-japan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,,2203557,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4748027.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/nuclear_02.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/9/newsid_3580000/3580143.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/6/newsid_3602000/3602189.stm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWnagasaki.htm
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/abomb/mpmenu.htm
http://www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/
http://www1.city.nagasaki.nagasaki.jp/na-bomb/museum/museume01.html
Hiroshima
The ground zero they didn't want us to see
The Guardian Weekend pp. 24-25
16.7.2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1528279,00.html
Hiroshima
The ground zero they didn't want us to see
The Guardian Weekend pp. 22-23
16.7.2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1528279,00.html
Hiroshima
The ground zero they didn't want us to see
The Guardian Weekend pp. 26-27
16.7.2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1528279,00.html
Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr.,
pilot of the ENOLA GAY, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima,
waves from his cockpit before the takeoff,
6 August 1945.
208-LU-13H-5.
Pictures of World War II > Japan
US National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/images/ww2-162.jpg
http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/#japan2
Paul Tibbets in 2003
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Tibbets_2003.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tibbets
Primary source
031210-F-3050V-112
Retired US Air Force (USAF) Brigadier General (BGEN) Paul W.
Tibbets
talks about his experience flying the B-29 Superfortress, the Enola Gay,
that delivered the first atomic bomb during World War II.
BGEN Tibbets spoke to a gathering
prior to autographing copies of his book "The
Return of the Enola Gay,"
at a book-signing event in the Pentagon Concourse.
Photographer's Name: MSGT JIM VARHEGYI, USAF
Location: PENTAGON
Date Shot: 12/10/2003
Date Posted: unknown
VIRIN: 031210-F-3050V-112
DefenseLINK
http://www.defenseimagery.mil/imagery.html#
a=search&s=tibbets&guid=b8c8dff7b0a4a31469521c88b2b53c8d9338fd08
WW2 > Hiroshima
August 6 1945
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,,127716,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,1834548,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/hiroshima/0,16218,1531839,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,14058,1543705,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,769634,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,14058,1532162,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,14058,1532197,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1528279,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1540655,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,1540588,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1539275,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/editor/story/0,,1539156,00.html
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1535061,00.html
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1535059,00.html
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1535058,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,1534600,00.html
WW2 > Hiroshima > Enola Gay
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/20/hiroshima-enola-gay-last-crew-member
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/us/08jeppson.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,,2203557,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,769634,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3315729.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4718579.stm
WW2 > Hiroshima > Little Boy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,,2203557,00.html
WW2 > Hiroshima > Morris Richard Jeppson, Army Air Forces
electronics specialist 1922-2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/us/08jeppson.html
WW2 > Hiroshima > Paul Warfields Tibbets, pilot 1915-2007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/nov/02/guardianobituaries.military
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,,2204008,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,,2203557,00.html
Boston Globe > Big Picture > Hiroshima, 64 years ago
August 5, 2009
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/08/hiroshima_64_years_ago.html
The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II
A Collection of Primary Sources
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 162
Edited by William Burr - 202/994-7000
Posted - August 5, 2005
Updated - April 27, 2007
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/index.htm
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