The Urakami church was the largest Catholic church in the Asia-Pacific region until its complete destruction by the atomic bomb the United States dropped on Nagasaki in 1945. There were calls to preserve the bombed church as a historical resource, but it was demolished in 1958.
Coutesy of Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum
Glass bottle deformed by the atomic bomb.
Collection of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
"Toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons", a permanent exhibition of A-bomb materials, can be seen in Building E of the United Nations Office in Geneva.
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Exposure to the extreme heat caused a small plate to stick to another.
Collection of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
The head of an angel statue in Urakami church, Nagasaki, located 500 metres from the centre of the bomb explosion, known as the hypocentre.
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Melting mass of ceramic fragments
Collection of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
A woman whose kimono pattern was burned into her skin by the intense heat rays of the atomic bomb.
Gonichi Kimura/Courtesy of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Roof tiles melted at temperatures of over 1200°C and were folded by the exposure to the extreme heat.
Collection of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 destroyed the area within two kilometres of the hypocentre. By the end of that year, it had killed 140,000 people.
Shigeo Hayashi/Courtesy of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
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