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The Hibakusha: Survivors of the Atomic Bombings
Chris Steele-Perkins
(From 2015)
August 8th 1945. A clear, cloudless sky over Hiroshima. 12 year old Kawamoto Kanesaki and his teacher hurried along the path by the river, late for school, it was almost 8:15. They heard the sound of planes. Fascinated, Kawamoto witnessed the American B29 bomber Enola Gay releasing Little Boy. Seconds later Little Boy, the first atomic bomb used against human targets, went off 580 meters above Shima Hospital with a force of 15 thousand tons of TNT. A fireball with a temperature of several million degrees centigrade at detonation, sent thermal rays out that would burn human flesh at...
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Chris Steele-Perkins
2005
JAPAN. Hiroshima. Mr Hideo Kimura stands where he was when he...
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JAPAN. Hiroshima. Ms Kiyomi Kouno with a painting she made of...
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JAPAN. Hiroshima. Mr Hiroshi Hara, who has made over 1,000 paintings...
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JAPAN. Hiroshima. Mr Sunao Kanesaki at the place he was at when...
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JAPAN. Hiroshima. Mr Yasuhiko Takeda at site where he was when...
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JAPAN. Nagasaki. 2005. Dr Tatsuichiro Akizuki and his wife Sugako...
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JAPAN. Nagasaki. 2005. Akio Sakita Member of Nagasaki Foundation...
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JAPAN. Near Nagasaki. Mr Senji Yamaguchi, in his room in a nursing...
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JAPAN. Outside Nagasaki. Miyata Hamamoto in a Catholic nursing...
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JAPAN. Outside Nagasaki. Kazuko Nagase in a Catholic Nursing...
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JAPAN. Nagasaki. Mr Hirotami Yamada, General Secretary of Nagasaki...
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JAPAN. Nagasaki. Mr Yasanobu Uchida stands where there had been...
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JAPAN. Nagasaki. Ms Tsuyo Kataoka at the site of a munitions...
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JAPAN. Nagasaki. 2005. Fujie Yamada stands in the road by the...
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JAPAN. Hiroshima. Ms Seiko Ikeda at site where she was when the...
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JAPAN. Hiroshima. Ms. Hiroko Hatakeyama stands in what used to...
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