Atomic Landscape of the Day: Yesterday marked the 66th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, which took place three days after the deadlier strike against the coastal city of Hiroshima.
360 Cities used images culled from Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum’s photo collection to create a number of 360-degree panoramas of the city’s devastated landscape in the aftermath of the world’s first atomic bombing.
[boingboing.]
When people ask what a Public Historian could do for a living in life, projects like this serve as an example.
Side note- these 360-degree views will stop you in your tracks. It makes it a lot easier, I think, to grasp the devastation from the bombing of Japan in a way that people from other generations couldn’t really see before.
Amazing and painful…
We must never forget.
The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings were...worst thing that ever happened. A deliberate,...
No amount of years can ever make us forget.
This is what we do to each other, all in the name of a funny sort of love.
So glad TDW posted this. Please everyone, know my life. Ever since living in...these...
powers that be, and...history, would be changed forevermore…” Neil Peart “Force Ten”
That people could ever do this...one another is profoundly disturbing, yet