Post by kanowarrior on Jan 12, 2013 13:15:53 GMT -5
Rare photo of two-tiered mushroom cloud over Hiroshima discoveredBy: Pete Thomas, GrindTV.com
A stark reminder of one of the most horrific events in history has surfaced in Hiroshima: a rare photo showing the mushroom cloud that formed after the bombing of the Japanese city on Aug. 6, 1945.
The photograph is believed to have been taken about 30 minutes after the bombing, from about six miles east of Ground Zero, in the neighboring town of present-day Kaita.
The photograph was discovered at Honkawa Elementary School.
The Asahi Shimbun reports that besides this photograph, only one other, shot by the U.S. military, is known to clearly show the mushroom cloud in two parts.
According to The Atlantic, that photograph was taken from aboard the Enola Gay after it had dropped the bomb, as it was pulling away.
Of the recently discovered photo, a curator at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is quoted by AFP as saying: "The existence of this shot was always known in history books, but this is the first time that the actual print has been discovered. A shot showing the mushroom cloud split into two like this is very rare."
As those who have studied World War II history are well aware, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the B-29 bomber was named "Little Boy." The resulting nuclear inferno killed an estimated 140,000 people.
Three days later another atomic bomb, "Fat Boy," was dropped on Nagasaki, killing about 70,000, in what signaled the end of the war.
--Image is courtesy of Honkawa Elementary School
A stark reminder of one of the most horrific events in history has surfaced in Hiroshima: a rare photo showing the mushroom cloud that formed after the bombing of the Japanese city on Aug. 6, 1945.
The photograph is believed to have been taken about 30 minutes after the bombing, from about six miles east of Ground Zero, in the neighboring town of present-day Kaita.
The photograph was discovered at Honkawa Elementary School.
The Asahi Shimbun reports that besides this photograph, only one other, shot by the U.S. military, is known to clearly show the mushroom cloud in two parts.
According to The Atlantic, that photograph was taken from aboard the Enola Gay after it had dropped the bomb, as it was pulling away.
Of the recently discovered photo, a curator at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is quoted by AFP as saying: "The existence of this shot was always known in history books, but this is the first time that the actual print has been discovered. A shot showing the mushroom cloud split into two like this is very rare."
As those who have studied World War II history are well aware, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the B-29 bomber was named "Little Boy." The resulting nuclear inferno killed an estimated 140,000 people.
Three days later another atomic bomb, "Fat Boy," was dropped on Nagasaki, killing about 70,000, in what signaled the end of the war.
--Image is courtesy of Honkawa Elementary School
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