Michael A. Stecker
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Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, Hiroshima Japan -- 2012
Designed by a Czech architect Jan Letzel (1880-1925), the Hiroshima Prefectural Commercial Exhibition Hall along the Ota River was completed in April, 1915 and renamed Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall in 1933. The "Little Boy" U-235 atomic bomb was detonated almost directly above this building on August 6, 1945. The heat of the explosion immediately melted the copper-skinned Genbaku Dome.

Docudrama:
Hiroshima 1995
http://mstecker.com/video/Hiroshima1995MP4.mp4
(812 MB)

WorldAtWar-Ep24-TheBomb1945-edit as an MP4 video file:
WorldAtWar-TheBomb1945

http://mstecker.com/video/ WorldAtWar-Ep24-TheBomb1945-edit.mp4

Audiobook -- Killing The Rising Sun:
KillingTheRisingSun-audiobook.mp3.part

http://mstecker.com/mp3/KillingTheRisingSun-audiobook.mp3.part
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web references: 1, 2
Hiroshima: The Complete Series, videos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
National Geographic videos: 1, 2, 3
1945 photos: 1, 2, 3, 4
more photos on the bombing
 

 
 


1945 "ground zero" photo of Hiroshima.  The Aioi T-bridge is close to center of this photo and the domed Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall about 500 feet to its lower left.
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(for an enlargement please mouse click twice over the photo)
photo from: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Hiroshima_aerial_view_after_atomic_bomb_8-1945.jpeg