You try to get two glass beads (to the left in this photo), each with a tail so that when you get them in the holes for Hiroshima & #Nagasaki, the back end stands up like a mushroom cloud.
Mass murder triumphalism...for kids!
Photo of original item in my office here in #Hiroshima.
@sts This is a study that tracks the long-term low-dose exposures of #nuclear industry workers, and their later health problems, with over 300,000 participants in the study.
It is a contrast to the Life Span Study of the ABCC/RERF which studied the single high-dose exposure of those exposed in the nuclear attacks in #Hiroshima & #Nagasaki.
@bojacobs@histodons
Conversely, this narrative could also use a little perspective. No mention of the WMDs Japan planed.
Unit 731 bioweapons field tested against civilians in China?
Fu-Go balloon bomb delivery system? Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night set to kill the civilians in SoCal for Sept, 1945?
Today is the 78th anniversary of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon on Earth, the Trinity Test in New Mexico in 1945, three weeks before the nuclear attacks on Japan.
There will be many images posted of the mushroom cloud today, but here is what mattered more, the fallout cloud. Dozens of homes and communities were blanketed with fallout, which which also contaminated fields as far away as Illinois and Indiana.
The fallout from the Trinity Test that landed in Indiana led to the contamination of strawboard boxes, some of which were used by the Kodak Company to ship film. The radiation from the fallout fogged the film, making it unusable. The story made newspapers after the news of the nuclear attacks on #Hiroshima & #Nagasaki.
When nuclear testing started at the Nevada Test Site in 1951, Kodak was given top secret information about the scheduling of tests so that they could protect their products.
The people who lived downwind from the Nevada nuclear tests were not given the same consideration as the products of the Kodak Company.