Hiroshima. Visiting it’s biggest attractions, the Peace Park and Museum, will give you nightmares for days because of the deadly day of August 6, 1945.
Now, let’s dive a bit into the history of Hiroshima.
In August 6,1945, the world plunged into the Nuclear Age. A project started in 1942, a secret US weapons program, called the Manhattan Project, had been working on two bombs of such intense heat and explosive force that they would destroy the two targeted cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to nothing but dust. This sounds horrifying, but the real danger was their radioactivity, which remained much longer after the incident, which is how our world has changed.
There were not much people to save them, also, because out of all the doctors in Hiroshima, 90% of them became atomic bomb victims. Eighteen emergency hospitals and 32 first-aid clinics were destroyed. Most of the workers needed to restore the health facilities were either dead or injured. To really see the damage, you must go to the Peace Museum. It has mannequins of dead people, showing you how their skin was, items found after the bombing, and people’s stories on how they got a disease from the bombing.
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Japan dedicated to get original footage of the atomic bomb, with the additional aim of world peace. The museum was established in August 1955 with the Memorial Hall. It’s the most popular out of Hiroshima’s destinations for school field-trips from all over Japan and even for foreigners. 53 million people in total have visited the museum from its opening in 1955 through 2005, getting at least an average of 1 million visitors per