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Nagasaki
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Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Nagasaki Peace Park
Fountain of Peace
Fountain of Peace
Peace sculptures donated by many nations.
Remaining walls of Nagasaki Prison
Nagasaki Prison
Peace Statue - The threat of a nuclear holocaust still looms...
Peace Statue
The Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki
Grim Statistics
Peace statue
Peace Park
The surrounding hills were completely charred during the blast.
Urakami Cathedral
Urakami Cathedral
Urakami Cathedral
A very surreal site. Sixty-odd years ago, the A-bomb was dropped over this very location.
Hypocentre
Hypocentre
A poignant reminder
"Ground zero"
"Ground zero"
"Ground zero"
"Ground zero"
Artifacts uncovered
"Ground zero"
"Ground zero"
Extent of blast
"...so many human corpses that they formed a dam in the stream..."
"Ground zero"
"Ground zero"
Hypocentre is at the lower-right of the picture.
August 9th 1945, 11.02am, the moment when time stopped for tens of thousands of people in Nagasaki
Lunchbox belonging to a schoolgirl, and its charred contents.
Mass of glass fused with a human hand
Thousands of paper cranes folded and strung together.
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Nagasaki Peace Hall
70,000 lights
Nagasaki Peace Hall
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum
One-legged Tori Gate of Sanno Shrine
As the sign says...
The remaining parts that were blown off
Archway parts
Description
Burnt camphor trees
Back from the dead
Camphor trees
Still standing...
Clear skies forever?
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