Hiroshima & Nagasaki Remembered
60 years later
Mushroom Cloud over Hiroshima
The mushroom cloud rising over Hiroshima, Japan. The city of Hiroshima was the target of the world’s first atomic bomb attack at 8:16 a.m. on August 6, 1945. The cloud rose to over 60,000 feet in about ten minutes.
Contents
- The Story of Hiroshima
- The Story of Nagasaki
- Photographs
- Historical Documents
- Selected Biographies
- Movies
- Maps
- Bibliography
- Other Online Sources
- About This Site
Related Reading
Rain of Ruin: A Photographic History of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
by Donald Goldstein