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Only one shot from inside the atomic bomb museum. The clocked was found damaged and stopped at the time of the atomic bomb blast - 11:02 AM (09 August 1945).
The idea of the museum is to bear witness to what happened so the people of the world will never forget. The museum is categorized into areas - “Verification of Blast Damage” and “Verification of Radiation” and the “Appeals of the Atomic Bomb Survivors”.
Stories from survivors is a very emotional experience depicting human pain and suffering - parents gathering firewood to cremate their children, families reduced to a single member and forced laborers dying slow painful deaths far from their homes. It was gut wrenching to view.
The last part of the museum attempts to put the tragedy of Nagasaki into perspective with displays about the build-up to war, the risks of militarization, the dangers of conflict, and what has played out with nuclear proliferation over the seventy four years since the bombing.
If you travel to Nagasaki, do visit. Its easy access by tram from the city centre (#1 or #3).
ATOMIC BOMBING OF NAGASAKI DURING WWII:
For 12 months prior to the nuclear attack, Nagasaki had experienced five small-scale air attacks by an aggregate of 136 U.S. planes which dropped a total of 270 tons of high explosive, 53 tons of incendiary, and 20 tons of fragmentation bombs.
Of these, a raid of August 1, 1945, was most effective, with a few of the bombs hitting the shipyards and dock areas in the southwest portion of the city, several hitting the Mitsubishi Steel and Arms Works, and six bombs landing at the Nagasaki Medical School and Hospital, with three direct hits on buildings there.
While the damage from these few bombs was relatively small, it created considerable concern in Nagasaki and a number of people, principally school children, were evacuated to rural areas for safety, thus reducing the population in the city at the time of the atomic attack.
On the day of the nuclear strike (August 9, 1945) the population in Nagasaki was estimated to be 263,000, which consisted of 240,000 Japanese residents, 10,000 Korean residents, 2,500 conscripted Korean workers, 9,000 Japanese soldiers, 600 conscripted Chinese workers, and 400 Allied POWs.
That day, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bockscar, commanded by Major Charles Sweeney, departed from Tinian's North Field just before dawn, this time carrying a plutonium bomb, code named "Fat Man".
The primary target for the bomb was Kokura, with the secondary target being Nagasaki, if the primary target was too cloudy to make a visual sighting.
When the plane reached Kokura at 9:44 a.m. (10:44 a.m. Tinian Time), the city was obscured by clouds and smoke, as the nearby city of Yahata had been firebombed on the previous day - the steel plant in Yahata also had their workforce intentionally set fire to containers of coal tar, to produce target-obscuring black smoke.
Unable to make a bombing attack on visual due to the clouds and smoke and with limited fuel, the plane left the city at 10:30 a.m. for the secondary target.
After 20 minutes, the plane arrived at 10:50 a.m. over Nagasaki, but the city was also concealed by clouds.
Desperately short of fuel and after making a couple of bombing runs without obtaining any visual target, the crew was forced to use radar in order to drop the bomb.
At the last minute, the opening of the clouds allowed them to make visual contact with a racetrack in Nagasaki, and they dropped the bomb on the city's Urakami Valley midway between the Mitsubishi Steel and Arms Works in the south, and the Mitsubishi-Urakami Ordnance Works in the north.
53 seconds after its release, the bomb exploded at 11:02 a.m. at an approximate altitude of 1,800 feet.
Less than a second after the detonation, the north of the city was destroyed and 35,000 people were killed.
Among the deaths were 6,200 out of the 7,500 employees of the Mitsubishi Munitions plant, and 24,000 others (including 2,000 Koreans) who worked in other war plants and factories in the city, as well as 150 Japanese soldiers.
The industrial damage in Nagasaki was high, leaving 68–80% of the non-dock industrial production destroyed.
It was the second and, to date, the last use of a nuclear weapon in combat, and also the second detonation of a plutonium bomb.
The first combat use of a nuclear weapon was the "Little Boy" bomb, which was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
The first plutonium bomb was tested in central New Mexico, United States, on July 16, 1945.
The Fat Man bomb was somewhat more powerful than the one dropped over Hiroshima, but because of Nagasaki's more uneven terrain, there was less damage.
Well, here it is. My second and final entry into the 100th Lugnut's challenge
I picked No. 98 and my assignment was to build any bubble top car.
I was originally going to build The Homer but settled for something a little more exciting and more my speed.
And once again I had tons of fun building and photographing this beauty.
The majority of the building got finished in the last few days and as one usually does there best work when under pressure I'm pretty satisfied with the result.
There are a few areas that I would have liked to spend more time tackling but hey, you need to stop at some point.
Thanks once again Lugnuts for another super fun challenge!
Let me know what you think.
Гітара
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Гітара -- Ukrainian for Guitar. I figured that since I'm making an everyday familiar object look so foreign to the visual senses that I needed a foreign language to describe the set too.
More here in my set, "Гітара:"
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this is part of a bunker in the midst of Berlin, Germany, close to Uhlandstr. . It was built in the 1970s in the time of Cold War and was meant to be inhabitated by about 3000 people for around two weeks. It was one of a handfull of survival bunkers in case of an atomic war.. all bunkers in Berlin altogether would have offered shelter for a maximum of 1 % of the population only. The bunker which is located beneath an underground parking lot was merely a symbol, a prospect of survival, while clearly noone would have survived a direct hit with a nuclear weapon.. it might have given protection against the fallout for a little time.. then people would have had to go back to a still quite radioactive and deadly surface...
Memorial Day weekend garage sale find. Two for one dollar. Look brand new.
Now I just need to find at least 2 more...
In the last days i was focused on photos but i need for a new mosaic to let my photostream be a bit less repetitive
This is a project i've thought a lot and dedicated to BLONDIE one of my favorite band.
They have well combined rock and glam, fashion and music. Debby Harry is a pure talented beauty.
If you missed some of their masterpiece here is a little selection:
Puente de Lusitania de Mérida (Badajoz). Estructura: Puente arco, estructura del tablero suspendida. Localización: Sobre el río Guadiana en Mérida, Extremadura (España). Construido: 1988-1991. Diseñador(es): Santiago Calatrava. Materiales: acero, hormigón pretensado. Dimensiones: Luz principal 189 m. Longitud total 465 m. Profundidad del arco 32 m. El deterioro al que el tráfico rodado sometía al Puente Romano llevó a sustituirlo por un nuevo puente. El proyecto de Calatrava dialoga con el puente romano con una figura de contraste, donde el gran arco único resalta sobre el cielo su perfil arquetípico y monumental. El reto que representaba la estructura romana, de 2000 años de antigüedad, es asumido mediante la repetición rítmica de elementos portantes. La superposición visual de ambos es impresionante, actuando el Puente Romano como basamento, masivo y rítmico, dominado por el gran arco propuesto por Calatrava. Los peatones cruzan el puente por medio de una larga pasarela de 500 m, situada a una altura de un metro y medio sobre la circulación rodada. Mérida (Badajoz) 15/11/2009
From the Archives: The Black Hole - a seller of atomic era surplus equipment from the Los Alamos National Laboratories; sadly closed down in 2018. Los Alamos, New Mexico, 2008
Custom Printed, see our profile for full details. See this and more at www.penzora.co.uk or our eBay store stores.ebay.co.uk/Penzora?_rdc=1
In preparation for an upcoming project based on the '50's iconic American "Atomic Family" I wanted to practice editing some TV-like images. For this shot I used an old photo of a TV statue taken in Seattle's Freedemont District and blended in a recent photo of model Dede Brenner from a recent desert shoot.
Another psycho-selfie.
Strobist info: 1 SB26 & 1 SB800 @ 1/16 through umbrellas from close left and right, 1 SB-600 @ 1/1 with red gel behind my back pointing @ the wall. Triggered by the built in flash (@ 1/2 power through DIY diffusor)
Catalog #: 10_0016018
Title: Atomic Bomb Test
Date: 1946
Additional Information: Bikini Island
Tags: Atomic Bomb Test, Bikini Island, 1946
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Catalog #: 10_0016020
Title: Atomic Bomb Test
Date: 1946
Additional Information: Bikini Island
Tags: Atomic Bomb Test, Bikini Island, 1946
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
variations on a theme- atomic coffee machines manufactured in Italy, Austria, Hungary, The United Kingdom, India, China: c. 1946-2009.
The Atomic Coffee Maker was designed by Mr Giordano Robbiati of Milan, Italy around 1946. Over the years various manufacturers in separate countries produced coffee machines based on Robbiati's patented designs and also labeled as 'Atomic' machines. Over time the Atomic trademark became the descriptive name of the distinctive shape/design of the machine- in the same manner as the trademarks 'escalator', 'bakelite' and 'hoover' became generic descriptive terms through common use in everyday language. Obviously in the case of the Atomic coffee maker the product is far more obscure than the ubiquitous 'escalator' however the trademark principles are identical. This process is called 'genericisation'.
Trade mark owners seek to avoid using or allowing others to use a trademark in a purely descriptive way, an example of this would be Johnson & Johnsons's ongoing defense of the 'Band Aid' trade mark. By encouraging other manufacturers to use the term 'sticking plaster' instead of 'band aid' J&J have managed to prevent their mark being declared generic and invalid in the USA by constantly threatening to litigate any company that describes their 'sticking plasters' as 'band-aids'.
Ensuring a trademark does not become the generic name of the goods it is applied to is especially important when an inventor creates a new device: he or she should take special care to create a new name that describes the invention alongside a separate trade name (trademark) which signifies the origin of the device. In the case of the Atomic coffee maker this did not happen: the Atomic trademark was used as the name for the novel invention as well as a trademark for the manufacturer. This was further compounded by separate manufacturers using the same name to describe/trademark their ATOMIC machines.
For a trademark to be valid it must be distinctive of a particular source or manufacturer- this is why in law a trademark is known as a 'badge of origin'. Registration of a trademark does not guarantee validity under law: it is up to the owner of the mark to pursue any alleged infringements. In such a case the validity of a mark can be called into question and the mark can be de-resgistered. In addition use of the trademark in a descriptive manner is not use of the mark as a trademark and does not constitute infringement.
In print and other media most of the coffee machines pictured above are almost universally described as ATOMIC coffee makers (and nothing else), regardless of the manufacturer. Today the ATOMIC name cannot act as a 'badge of origin' as it does not indicate a particular source- and therefore it cannot act as a legitimate trademark in relation to coffee machines of this (atomic) design. No trader should be granted a perpetual monopoly on the descriptive name of this type of distinctive coffee maker.
A good example of this reality is the Otto/Otso machine pictured above: this machine has never been labeled as an Atomic coffee machine by the manufacturer, and it is a product of the 21st Century- not the Twentieth. Unlike all the other machines pictured here it is made of steel not alloy. Yet upon its release into the market around 2009 it was immediately described as an 'atomic coffee maker' by ordinary people- all over the world- using the Atomic word to signify the shape and form of the machine. That is to say: using ATOMIC as a name, and never as a 'badge of origin'. And it is no wonder why: the Otso machine clearly belongs in this collection of Atomic Type Coffee Machines- if it does not look just like an Atomic: what on Earth does it look like?
The Ikon Exports Collection, 2011
A guest appearance from me on this one but I thought it was still worth showing! Atomic Habits is a book by James Clear which purports to help you define your personality.
Bury St Edmunds Suffolk May 2025
Also known as Hiroshima Peace memorial, this is one of the few buildings surviving the atomic blast. Standing 160m from the hypocenter it was destroyed in seconds.
Stands there to remind the world of the terrible consequences of atomic bombing.
More information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_Peace_Memorial
Catalog #: 10_0016023
Title: Atomic Bomb Test
Date: 1946
Additional Information: Bikini Island
Tags: Atomic Bomb Test, Bikini Island, 1946
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Picture taken at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima Japan. This was taken in one of the memorials at the Peace Park and gives you a visual representation of the terrible destruction caused by the atomic blast in Hiroshima.