Atomic bomb

Wesley Hancock

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History – World War 2 Atomic Bomb

At about 8:15am, 60 000 Japanese people died after a US B29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, on the 6^th August 1945. Three days later, another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing at least 40 000. US president at the time Harry Truman, ordered the dropping of the bombs, which left roughly 100 000 individuals to die slow deaths due to radiation poisoning in the aftermath.

Sunao Tsuboi, “that’s me,” he says. “We were hoping to find some sort of medical help but there was no treatment available, and no food or water. I thought I had reached the end.” (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/31/japan-atomic-bomb-survivors-nuclear-weapons-hiroshima-70th-anniversary)

Scars from the burns remain on his face to this day.

Hiromi Hasai, 84

(http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/06/world/asia/witnesses-to-hiroshima-atomic-bomb-pass-their-stories-to-a-new-generation.html?_r=0)

He was 20 years old and in the process of learning to make machine gun bullets when he noticed a flash of light in the morning sky, the flash from the bomb that leveled their city. Hundreds of his classmates were killed in the bombing.

Kazuhiko Futagawa, 69

(http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/11/pictures-nagasaki-and-hiroshima-survivors-share-their-stories/)

Kazuhiko was exposed to the bomb while still inside his mother’s womb. He stands here in front of a shirt from sister he never knew. On August 6^th 1945, his father and sister worked at city hall, which was well within the blast radius leads experts to believe that his father and sister were both incinerated instantly.

This was a poster that aimed to convince people that nuclear weapons are not a suitable solution to our problems. The poster shows a peace sign tearing a nuclear weapon apart, to demonstrate that the aim was to rid the world of nuclear weapons and replace it with peace. The poster also uses red text to emphasis that nuclear weapons are not wanted.

This poster shows the planet morphed with a skull to signify that the planet would be dead if nuclear weapons continue to reign carnage. It uses the continents in the place of the eye sockets to add emphasis and make it more relatable that our earth with be dead.