August Peace追悼と平和
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資料

Continue your research

Follow the documentary record through photographs, maps, objects, and first-person testimony.

Start with a first-person account from the memorial halls, then compare it with the City of Hiroshima’s reconstruction record and the U.S. mission documents. Use the memoir search to find accounts from people of different ages and locations.

How to work through the records

Start with a person and note their age and where they were on August 6. Then locate the neighborhood in the mapped archive. Compare a prewar photograph with an image taken after the bombing. Return to the person’s account to see what the photograph leaves outside the frame.

The visual archive preserves photographs and films made in 1945. The museum’s artifact database records where items were found and who gave them to the collection. Those details can connect an ordinary object to a named family and help you distinguish an original record from a later retelling.

研究資料

From the laboratory to the city

The Science of Little Boy →

Begin with the Manhattan Project timeline, then follow either weapon to its mission, the city it struck, and the survivor record.

計画史The Manhattan ProjectFrom the discovery of fission through wartime laboratories, Trinity, and the transition to civilian control.広島Little Boy · HiroshimaThe uranium weapon, its development, the August 6 mission, and its human consequences.長崎Fat Man · NagasakiThe plutonium weapon, Trinity’s role, and the August 9 mission redirected from Kokura.

Build a reading path

Start with a photograph or named person. Record the date and location. Compare a Japanese municipal or museum account with the U.S. mission chronology, then return to testimony to see what each record can tell you about the same event.

Find people, places, and primary records