Object Details
- photographer
- Mydans, Carl
- Description
- On August 6, 1945, a B-29 plane, the Enola Gay, dropped a uranium atomic bomb, code named "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, Japan. In minutes, half of the city vanished. According to U.S. estimates, 60,000 to 70,000 people were killed or missing; 140,000 were injured; and many more were made homeless as a result of the bomb. In the blast, thousands died instantly. Nagasaki faced the same fate three days later.
- Surveys disclosed that severe radiation injury occurred to all those exposed within a radius of one kilometer. Serious to moderate radiation injury occurred between one and two kilometers. Individuals within two to four kilometers suffered slight radiation effects. The scars on this boy's body could have been the result of flash burns during the heat waves or a residential fire caused by the blast. He is being measured as part of a continuous testing process in an attempt to understand the after-effects of radiation exposure. Mydans was the TIME-LIFE bureau chief in Tokyo at the time the picture was taken.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1949
- ID Number
- 2005.0228.129
- accession number
- 2005.0228
- catalog number
- 2005.0228.129
- Object Name
- photograph
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 14 in x 11 in; 35.56 cm x 27.94 cm
- place made
- Japan: Hiroshima, Hiroshima
- Related Publication
- Mydans, Carl. Carl Mydans, Photojournalist
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Photographic History
- Photography
- Carl Mydans
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1303462
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-d83c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
