Nerea Yáñez, Alicia Martínez, Josu Azkargorta, Paula García and Javier Susaeta

The nuclear bomb The nuclear bomb of of Hiroshima and Hiroshima and

NagasakiNagasaki

INDEXINDEX• WHAT HAPPENED?

• CAUSES

• CONSEQUENCES

• NOW AND THEN

• SOLUTIONS

HIROSHIMA

LOCATIONLOCATION•Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima, in Chugoku (west of Japan)

•Near the river Ota

HiroshimaHiroshima

POPULATIONPOPULATION1.160.000 inhabitants

DENSITYDENSITY 1.280 inhabitants/km²

A city with…

• Militar

• Industrial

importance

Very industrialised city

Militar importance

NAGASAKI

LOCATIONLOCATION•Nagasaki is the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture.

• In the Kyushu island.

POPULATIONPOPULATION446.000 inhabitants

DENSITYDENSITY 1.100 inhabitants/km²

WHAT WHAT HAPPENED?HAPPENED?

The disaster happened:

6 and 9 of august in 1945

The Secondary World War

“Little Boy” bomb exploded in Hiroshima – 6th of august

“Fat Man” bomb exploted in Hiroshima – 9th of august

It was one of the greatest disasters in history!

It was created by the project Manhattan, that designed the two first atomic bombs:

•Little Boy – attacked Hiroshima

•Fat Man – attacked Nagasaki

These bombs were created of uranium

With a very simple design

THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE “LITTLE BOY”

VERY SIMPLE DESIGN

• DIAMETRE: 71 cm

• TYPE OF REACTION: fusion

• WEIGHT: 4.000 kg

• Explosive power: like 12 kilotones

CHARACTERISTICS OF “THE ENOLA GAY”

• Tripulation: 10 passengers

• Length: 30 m

• Dimension: 43 m

• It was the plane that threw the “Little Boy” over Hiroshima

PAUL TIBETSPAUL TIBETS

•He was born in Ilinosis in 1950

•He died in Ohio, USA – 1st November in 2007

• He was the pilot that threw the bomb over Hiroshima

• The plane that he piloted: B-29 Enola Gay

• He had an important militar career

HOUR BY HOUR

HIROSHIMA

• At 8.15 all the clocks of Hiroshima stopped

• The temperatures increased more than 1.000.000 Cº

• The sky burned and a fire ball of 26 m of diametre destroyed all Hiroshima

• At 8.45 the photografer Yoshito Matsushige took the first photo after the explosion

• It took it in the Miyuki bridge, 2 km from the hipocentre of the explotion

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE “FAT MAN”

• WEIGHT: 4.630 kg

• LENGTH: 3,25 m

• DIAMETRE: 1,52 m

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE “B-29 BOCKSCAR”

• TRIPULATION: 13 passengers

• LENGTH: 21 m

• DIMENSION: 35 m

• It was the plane that threw the “Fat Man” over Nagasaki.

CHARLES W. SWEENEY

• He was born the 27th of December in 1919.

• He was from Lowell, Massachusetts.

• He died the 16th of july in 2004 (84 years old) in Boston, USA.

• He formed part of the US Army Air Corps.

• He piloted the B-29 Bockscar.

• He threw the “Fat Man” over Nagasaki.

HOUR BY HOUR

NAGASAKI

• At 7:50 the alert of the air bombing was announced.

• At 8:30 the alert of the distancing of the danger was announced.

• At 10:30 they saw the planes but didn´t gave any importance to them.

• At 11:01 the bomb exploded.

• The temperatures increased to 3.900 Cº.

• The bomb was thrown to 469 m of altitude

CAUSESCAUSES

JAPAN JAPAN VSVS USAUSA

USA - Put high investments of petroleum

Japan started the war

7th of december – first attack of Japan

ATTACK TO PEARL HARBOR

PLACE: Hawaii

DATE: 7th December 1941

•A flote of 353 japanese boats bombardated the american boat

•Japan won

•America declarated war to Japan

USA had accomplices:

THE CONSEQUENCES

After the explotion

A black rain with radioactive elements fell to the ground

Destroyed all the environment

Caused anaemia, spasms and convulsions

• This bomb killed the 30% of the Hiroshima´s population

• 140.000 people died directly

• 10.000 people died caused of the radioactive rain

•It caused a great damage in houses

•Destroyed the 92% of the houses, buildings…

FIRST

THEN

HIROSHIMA

• The “Fat Man” bomb killed 400.000 persons of Nagasaki.

• It destroyed the 40% of buildings.

• The damage expanded to 3 km from the hipocentre.

NAGASAKI

FIRST

THEN

•140.000 persons died

•100.000 wounded

•200.000 people without house

People died because of…

Poisoning of radiation

Cancer

Bomb radiation

10%

50%

40%

• The burns that people suffered were of 3rd grade

• Affected some generations

• Also affected to doctors, investigators… that went to Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the explotion.

The only survivor

• He was called Tsutomu Yamaguchi.

• He was the only recognised survivor of the bombs.

• But he died the last 4th of January in 2010 of stomache cancer. (related with the radiation of the bombs.

• He was at a distance of about 3 km of the bomb.

• He was at a bussiness trip when the bomb exploded.

• He suffered burns in the left side of his body but didn´t die.

• The 8th of august he returned to his city, Nagasaki

• He tried to find his family, although the radiation of the bomb.

NOWADAYS…

Solutions have been taken

• Construction of new buildings: schools, shops, officies…

• Made Hiroshima the new symbol of pace

• Reforestation of trees, flowers and other plants…

• Developed and rich country

• Very good trade

• They export fish (that is of high quality) to other countries

• They constructed a monument in the place where there was the hipocentre of the explotion.

• They did a type of tomb in which are all the names of people that died in the explotion.

MONUMENT OF THE HIPOCENTRE OF THE EXPLOTION

THE TOMB OF ALL DEAD PEOPLE

• It is located in the centre of Hiroshima.

• It was constructed in 1949-1956 by Kenzo Tange.

• 122.100 m of squares of homenage to the victims of the explotion.

• It was declarated worldwide patrimony of the humanity by UNESCO.

• It was constructed in the 1955 by  Kenzo Tange.

• The opening of the museum was the 27th of November in 2008.

• It was constructing with the intention of remember people that died in the explotion.

• It collects: objects, clothes, images of the disaster…

• This has attracted more than 50 million of tourists.

• They have also a very curious wall with the shape of a man and a ladder.

• They were marked after the explotion.

A MAP THAT RECREATES THE DISASTER

A CLOCK THAT MARKS THE EXACTLY HOUR OF THE EXPLOTION (8:15)

A BUDU STATUE THAT WAS BURNED BY THE RADIATION

SCENES THAT RECREATES THE DISASTER

CLOTHES

OBJECTS THAT THE RADIATION AFFECTED

• It also participates in the international movement of the peace.

• It organises memorial ceremonies.

• All years (6th and 9th of august) they celebrate the anniversary of the atomic bombing.

• These atrack tourists because all want to know more about the disaster.

It appears in the cinema…

• In the 50s, Kaneto Sindo, a cinema director

• Shoot a documental in Hiroshima about the consequences that affected mainly children after the bomb

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