Tag: Nagasaki
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Making radiation visible: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Godzilla
Howard Fischer Uppsala, Sweden Gojira (Godzilla) poster. © Toho Company, 1954. Via Wikimedia. Fair use. “The theme of the film, from the beginning, was the terror of the bomb.”1 – Tomoyuki Tanaka, producer of Gojira (Godzilla) The Third Reich surrendered to the Allies in early May 1945. This did not yet end World…
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Hiroshima seventy-five years after the bombing
Cristóbal Berry-Cabán Fort Bragg, North Carolina, United States Figure 1. Little Boy at Tinian Island, August 1945. National Archives. Figure 2. Mushroom cloud over Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. National Archives. Figure 3. This person’s skin was burned in a pattern corresponding to the dark portions of a kimono worn at the time of the…