Japan Trip-Part 3

After time spent in Imari for work, Randy and a coworker drove back to Nagasaki where they would catch a flight back to Tokyo. They had some time in Nagasaki so they decided to visit the Atomic Bomb Museum there. Here are some pictures from there.

The picture above is just outside the museum and shows the exact hypocentre of where the bomb came down. Below is a replica of the Atomic Bomb or "Fat Man" that was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9th, 1945...

This shows the inner workings of the bomb. The small center would be the "trigger" and is surrounded by explosives...

Inside the museum shows the effects of the bombing on the city. Everything within 2.59 square miles of the hypocentre was completely leveled. Here are melted coins found after the explosion...

and melted house tiles...

and a melted glass bottle...

Here is a clock that stopped at 11:02, the exact time that the bomb was detonated over Nagasaki...

Here is a structure taken from another part of the city. It shows the effects of the explosion...

And here are a few more facts about the bombing...

I hardly know what to say about this... It reminds me of this post I did back in January.

To Be Continued...

Some of the above information comes from Wikopedia