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.

Read the museum’s bombing record alongside Sachiko Yasui’s memoir. The memorial halls let you search other accounts. The city’s photographs and museum collections include images of destruction and injury.

Follow one neighborhood through three kinds of records

Start with a prewar photograph of Yamazato, identify Urakami Cathedral, and compare the August 7 and September 7 aerial coverage. Then choose an account from the Nagasaki Peace Memorial Hall. A first-person account may describe terrain, shelter or a route through the city that is difficult to recognize from a photograph alone.

For individual objects, open the museum’s exhibit guide. For people, search testimony by age, distance from the hypocenter or occupation. Comparing a teacher’s memory with a postal worker’s or a child’s shows how people experienced the same event from different places and responsibilities.

研究資料

From the laboratory to the city

The Science of Fat Man →

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