Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum

Recently, it has been the anniversary of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima atomic bombing. I got to visit the atomic bomb museum in Nagasaki while TAD to Sasebo, Japan. Today, Nagasaki has no traces that a bomb ever went off. Just this museum. I found it humorous to see a Japanese person drive by in their tiny car blasting American hip-hop music. The newer generation seem to admire the Americans while the older Japanese may still have a grudge. The bombing was many years ago and people are still living with the radiological effects of nuclear radiation. The museum was quite morbid. Cameras were not allowed inside the museum so I was unable to snap some shots. However, the stories told and devastation made the visit very heartbreaking. I saw an old man break down and cry when he was reading a testimony of people losing their loved ones and not knowing what to do. Pain from the burns and injuries. People dying of thirst. Horrible. Just horrible. 75% of the victims were elderly, women and children who had nothing to do with the war.

Ground Zero

Nagasaki City on August 9,1945
Population : about 240,000
Deaths and injuries caused by the atomic bomb
(estimates up to the end of December 1945)
- Deaths : 73,884
- Injuries : 74,909
(from a 1950 study by the Committee for the Preservation of Atomic Bomb Artifacts)

Link to Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum