This is a picture of a picture, taken at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial museum. It displays the complete destruction brought about by the atomic bomb on August 6 1945 at exactly 8:15 am. The building still somewhat standing is the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, one of the very few structures that weren't completely obliterated. Designated a monument to the bombing the ruin still stands today and is known as the Genbaku (A-bomb) dome.‹›
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

Kenzo Tange

Model · Hiroshima, Japan · 1955

Drawing: Maarten Heerlien from Voorschoten, The Netherlands · 2009-09-10 · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 3872×2592

This is a picture of a picture, taken at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial museum. It displays the complete destruction brought about by the atomic bomb on August 6 1945 at exactly 8:15 am. The building still somewhat standing is the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, one of the very few structures that weren't completely obliterated. Designated a monument to the bombing the ruin still stands today and is known as the Genbaku (A-bomb) dome.

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