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Images of destruction: Hiroshima 64 years later

Article: Images of destruction: Hiroshima 64 years later

Posted August 14th, 2009, 5:08 PM by

Last week Design Observer republished an online slideshow of photographs, 100 in all, of the destruction left after the bombing of Hiroshima. The gallery originally appeared last November and I missed seeing them then. They’ve resurfaced to commemorate the 64th anniversary of the bombing. The images are haunting. They show the destruction of a city wiped…

Remembering Hiroshima

Article: Remembering Hiroshima

Posted August 06th, 2009, 5:08 PM by

On a somber note, 64 years ago on this date, a US bomber named “Enola Gay” flew over the city of Hiroshima and its approximate 250,000 residents and dropped the world’s first atomic bomb. An estimated 70,000 people were immediately killed with another 70,000 killed in the aftermath due to radiation exposure and resulting injuries.…