Two days ago I visited Hiroshima Peace Park and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Musuem. It was one the most fascinating journey for me as a history lover.
It was a famous Shinkansen( Japanese Bullet Train) trip of around 3 hours 30 minutes from Shin-Yokohama station. The train topped around 260-270km/hr.
I reached at Hiroshima Peace park around 2.00 PM with a hungry stomach. But I decided to take food later as I can’t wait to visit the musuem.
I visited the Atomic bomb dome- above which the hypocenter of the NUKE named ‘Little Boy’.
Later I visited the whole park. It was full of history. I felt like I was hearing the crying of childrens and dying people.
Later, around 3.30 I entered the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Musuem. The entry fee was only 200 yen=2$. So cheap.
First there was a video presentation of the facts of the Little boy and some interviews of survivors from that incident.
The incident
On August 6, 1945, 8.15 AM nuclear weapon named 'Little Boy: was detonated in Hiroshima. It was the first nuclear weapon/bomb the mankind ever experienced. An experienced pilot named ‘Colonel Tibbets’ carried the bomb using the specially prepared B-29 bomber jet to Hiroshima.
The bomb blasted at 600m above ground level. Within fraction of second, the atmospheric temperature reached 3000-4000 degree Celsius. The cloud of nuclear bomb covered the sky of Hiroshima.
It was a fine morning in Hiroshima. 6300 High school students were working to remove houses from adjacent to street to make it wider. All of them burned.
Near the hypocenter of the bomb almost everyone died within minutes. Those who survived, had to bear a lot of complexities. Like burning of skin, cancer, swollen skin, losing all hair.
Most importantly, nuke radiation even killed the childrens inside the mothers womb. How horrific is this?
Total population of Hiroshima was 35000 in 1945. Of which 140000 died on the same year.
So it means, a single nuclear weapon wiped out a whole city as well as killed almost 40% of all population. What a massacre???
Local Guides: Say no to NUCLEAR WEAPON
Nuclear weapon is devastating. But as all of us know, there are many treaties to rove the nuclear weapon from the mother earth. But 8 countries still hold a lot of nuclear weapon.
I know, saying ‘NO’ from a local guide means nothing to the world leaders. They want power to do devilish things.
I ask all Local Guides to say a big ‘NO’ to nuclear weapons.