{"id":2330,"date":"2008-05-13T19:14:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T19:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/05\/13\/newly-released-hiroshima-photo\/"},"modified":"2008-05-13T19:14:57","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T19:14:57","slug":"newly-released-hiroshima-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/13\/newly-released-hiroshima-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly Released Hiroshima Photographs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"i-06da0a99e74b1cc251ce4076f393e6ad-hiroshima_cloud.jpg\"On August 6th, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by the United States Army. The bomb successfully exploded instantly killing about 80,000 people and destroying a majority of the physical structure of the city.Someone with a camera took a series of photographs of the post-bomb carnage. The film exposed by this photographer was brought to a cave outside of town, where it was later discovered by US serviceman Robert Capp. Capp had the film developed and hung on to the images until 1998, when he donated the film to the Hoover Archives with the provision that the photos not be reproduced for another 10 years.That was ten years ago, and the photographs are now available for you to see.These pictures are not easy to look at. The photographs are mainly of large numbers of human corpses, many apparently burned. To me, many of these imaged seem to depict bodies that have been accumulated, perhaps pulled from wreckage, as the first stage in disposal. Others are remains clearly in situ at the site of death. They are all gruesome.I find it fascinating and poignant that these photographs of one of the most horrible moments in human history have become available almost at the same exact time (historically) that documentation of Einstein’s atheism also emerge. Einstein, of course, produced some of the science ultimately needed to build a bomb like this one, and followed that act with a lifetime of anti-war and anti-nuclear activism.I am not suggesting to you any meaning or interpretation of this juxtaposition. I simply mention it as food for thought.The photographs are here. <\/a>I thank my colleague Christian Reinboth<\/a> for bringing this astounding collection of photographs to my attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On August 6th, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by the United States Army. The bomb successfully exploded instantly killing about 80,000 people and destroying a majority of the physical structure of the city.Someone with a camera took a series of photographs of the post-bomb carnage. The film exposed by this photographer … Continue reading Newly Released Hiroshima Photographs<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[147],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-BA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}