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...HIROSHIMA ?Intended target ?Actual detonation center ?0.5 mile (0.8 km) ?Hiroshima Castle ?Ota River ?1 mile (1.6 km) ?Area destroyed by blast and fire ?Buildings incinerated ?Area destroyed by blast ?To Hiroshima...
They are called the hibakusha, survivors of a day when the world went dark. About 85,000 people who lived in Hiroshima and its environs on Aug. 6, 1945, are still alive. For many, that morning was the beginning of a lifetime of struggle--to overcome not only the physical ailments associated with radiation but also the psychic trauma caused by years of rejection from their own society, which shunned the survivors out of fear they could contaminate others. French photographer Gerard Rancinan traveled to Hiroshima this year to photograph the hibakusha and record their stories. Seventy agreed to pose...
...Kirk had pineapple fritters. "I love the damn things," Van Kirk, 84, says today from his home in Stone Mountain, Ga. "I'll never forget the pineapple damn fritters." The Enola Gay left Tinian, in the Marianas chain, at 2:45 a.m. and was scheduled to arrive over Hiroshima, a city at the south end of the Japanese island of Honshu, at 8:15 a.m.; the crew was 15 seconds later than planned. The plane then dropped a single bomb, weighing five tons. Says Van Kirk: "I was timing it with my watch. It was supposed to take 43 seconds...
Eight days later, it was. Ever since, there has been controversy over when the war would have ended had the bomb not been dropped on Hiroshima--a second was detonated over the city of Nagasaki on Aug. 9--and how many Japanese and Americans would have died before it did. But, plainly, the most terrible war ever known ended earlier than it would have because of the Enola Gay's mission. The bombs cost tens of thousands of lives--perhaps 120,000 were killed immediately in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with many more dying later from the effects of radiation...
Right from the start, the nuclear age was wrapped in a paradox. An awful weapon had saved lives; a terrible instrument of war had brought peace. The images from Hiroshima seared the consciousness of a generation, forever serving as an admonishing reminder of mankind's destructive capacities. "In an instant, without warning, the present had become the unthinkable future," TIME wrote one week after the dropping of the bomb. And yet the very memory of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, of cities being reduced to rubble in an instant, provided an odd hope that such terror would never...