Hiroshima : The Unseen Pictures

white_snake

The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed about 250.000 people and became the most dreadful slaughter of civilians in modern history. However, for many years there was a curious gap in the photographic records. Although the names of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were incised into our memories, there were few pictures to accompany them. Even today, the image in our minds is a mixture of devastated landscapes and shattered buildings. Shocking images of the ruins, but where were the victims?

The American occupation forces imposed strict censorship on Japan, prohibiting anything "that might, directly or by inference, disturb public tranquility" and used it to prohibit all pictures of the bombed cities. The pictures remained classified 'top secret' for many years. Some of the images have been published later by different means, but it's not usual to see them all together. This is the horror they didn't want us to see, and that we must NEVER forget:




All the watches found in the ground zero were stopped at 8:15 am, the time of the explosion.





Within a certain distance from the site of explosion, the heat was so intense that practically everything was vaporised. The shadows of the parapets were imprinted on the road surface of the Yorozuyo Bridge, 1/2 of a mile south-southwest of the hypocenter. Besides, in Hiroshima, all that was left of some humans, sitting on stone benches near the centre of explosion, was their outlines.

The massacre



On August 6, 1945, 8.15 am, the uranium atom bomb exploded 580 metres above the city of Hiroshima with a blinding flash, creating a giant fireball and sending surface temperatures to 4,000C. Fierce heat rays and radiation burst out in every direction, unleashing a high pressure shockwave, vaporising tens of thousands of people and animals, melting buildings and streetcars, reducing a 400-year-old city to dust.



Beneath the center of the explosion, temperatures were hot enough to melt concrete and steel. Within seconds, 75,000 people had been killed or fatally injured with 65% of the casualties nine years of age and younger.





Radiation deaths were still occurring in large numbers in the following days. "For no apparent reason their health began to fail. They lost appetite. Their hair fell out. Bluish spots appeared on their bodies. And then bleeding began from the ears, nose and mouth".






This photograph shows an eyeball of an A-bomb victim who got an atomic bomb cataract. There is opacity near the center of the eyeball.





Many of them were fired from their jobs. Hibakusha women never got married, as many feared they would give birth to deformed children. Men suffered discrimination too. "Nobody wanted to marry someone who might die in a couple of years".

edmundo

Japan generasi skrg cool je.
Siap puja2 budaya US lagi..

syahmelaka

Japan generasi skrg cool je.
Siap puja2 budaya US lagi..
edmundo Post at 16-7-2010 17:27

sense of guiltiness...?

alexa

Sangat sedih. Kalau perang, mesti banyak civilians jadi mangsa

pintumasuk

sedey kann..

nazurah

mintak dijauhkan bencana sebegini melanda tanah melayu ni...

silencekiller

Hanya peperangan mampu mengawal populasi penduduk donia

japari

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beldandy

tapi selepas musnah mereka begitu cepat membangun sampai meninggalkan malaysia...

roquezz

bencana alam pon dpt mengawal populasi..

Fieza-mira

Wabak penyakit pun boleh jugak kurangkan penduduk dunia.

Dulu2 zaman medieval kat eropah, 1/3 rakyat dia mati akibat penyakit hawar dalam masa yang sekejap.

Diorang panggil wabak penyakit tu 'Black Death' kalau tak silap.

auReLL

Hah, tak lama lagi bencana seperti ini akan berlaku sekali lagi... malah kali ini lebih dahsyat lagi kerana membabitkan 1 dunia...  kalau masih ada 1/3 penduduk dunia yg masih hidup selepas ini pun dah bersyukur...  {:1_125:}

yaminz

Allied lagi kejam n zalim bbanding Axis... Sejarah dtulis oleh orang yg menang...

moon2002

Sejarah dtulis oleh orang yg menang

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pawangBuaya

tak susah nak buat bom atom tak sengaja...
sabotaj je nuclear reactor kat nuclear power plant...
jadi r macam chernobyl nu..

KimoraHakim

sungguh menakutkan..mintak2 la dijauhi daripada benca seperti ini...

mysweetisha

takutnyer tengok...

sukaminumteh

sgt menakutkan n menyedihkan..respect dgn cara diorg overcome dari peristiwa tuh~

cintalara

dulu2 aku pernah tgk satu gambar lepas kejadian ni. ada satu pompuan buka kimono dia dan tunjuk kt belakang badan, corak kimono yg dia pakai tu terprint kt kulit belakang tu. dasyat! klu tak salah, gambar tu ada kt buku teks sekolah rendak lama2 dulu.

billionman78

dulu2 aku pernah tgk satu gambar lepas kejadian ni. ada satu pompuan buka kimono dia dan tunjuk kt b ...
cintalara Post at 18-7-2010 21:13

cool...dah tak payah pakai tatu lagi..