I. Michael Heyman, who led the Smithsonian Institution in the 1990s during a period of significant expansion and fierce controversy over the exhibiting of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died on Nov. 19 at his home in Berkeley, Calif. He was 81. The cause was emphysema, his son James said. Having served for a...
NAGASAKI, Japan -- In 1945, Masahito Hirose saw the white mushroom cloud rise from the atomic bomb that incinerated this city and that left his aunt to die a slow, painful death, bleeding from her nose and gums. Still, like other survivors of the attacks here and in Hiroshima, he quietly accepted Japan's postwar embrace of nuclear-generated power,...
I grew up under the watchful eyes of three Russian icons that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. They belonged to my father's parents, refugees from the Russian Revolution who were quietly eating breakfast with two of their three children when the Enola Gay flew over their city on Aug. 6, 1945, and dropped the bomb that turned most of it to...
Hiroshima (japansk: 広島) er en by beliggende på øen Honshû i Japan. Den har et indbyggertal (oktober 2000) på 1.126.282 og dækker et areal på 741,63 km².
Som den første by i verdenshistorien blev Hiroshima udsat for atomvåben, da USA den 6. august 1945, under 2. verdenskrig, kastede en atombombe over byen. Bombeflyet Enola Gay fløj over Hiroshima og kastede bomben. Bomben blev udløst kl. 8.15 og 43 sekunder senere kom der et kraftigt lysglimt, chokbølge og en kæmpemæssig paddehatteformet sky