Hiroshima and Nagasaki Remembered
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| Audience/Grade: | 5-Continuing Education |
| Discipline(s): |
General Engineering, Engineering Science Nuclear Engineering |
| Special Topic(s): |
Technology and Society |
| Learning Resource Type: |
Teaching - Case Study |
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| Description: | Multimedia website with historical documents, photographs, movies, maps and other online resources. n 2005, the world commemorated the 60th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This website was created for students, educators, and the general public to provide an easy to use collection of resources to better understand that milestone of human history. The site brings forward a large collection of digital assets, such as original texts, eyewitness accounts, rare photographs, videos and full color maps. This site is a member of the Nuclear Pathways project, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation's National Science Digital Library effort. Nuclear Pathways' goal makes information on historic and current nuclear issues more accessible and comprehensible to the public, educators, and students from middle school through graduate programs. It begins: "On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber named the Enola Gay left the island of Tinian for Hiroshima, Japan. The uranium 235 gun-type bomb, named Little Boy, exploded at 8:16 a.m. In an instant 80,000 to 140,000 people were killed and 100,000 more were seriously injured. The blast wave shattered windows for a distance of ten miles and was felt as far away as 37 miles. Hiroshima had disappeared under a thick, churning foam of flames and smoke. The co-pilot, Captain Robert Lewis, commented, "My God, what have we done?"" |
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| Keywords: | nuclear weapons nuclear bombs atomic bomb nuclear weapons weapons of mass destruction |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
(h) Understand global, economic, environmental, and societal context (j) Integrate knowledge of contemporary issues |
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| Publication Date: | December 2006 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.hiroshima-remembered.com/ |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
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