Hiroshima and Nagasaki

During our tour of the Hospital in the Rock we were met with what I thought was an unexpected but very much welcome section about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I view these two bombings as one of the big "What ifs?" of history and many like to speculate about the necessity of the action. I'm really glad then that I got to see some artifacts from the bomb site as it helps me get a more tangible connection to the past. It was also cool to see three museums very far away from each other collaborate in the way that they did as the materials they received for the exhibit were from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum.

One of my big takeaways from the nuclear exhibit was more concrete understanding of nuclear weapons actual power. The exhibit illustrated the blast radius of various nuclear bombs that have been developed and their fallout impact by superimposing the blast radius over google maps images of major cities. By no means did I become less afraid of nuclear warfare after seeing the exhibit I originally thought contemporary blast radii were larger than they were depicted as. That alone pushes me to think nuclear awareness is as relevant as ever as these bombings move further and further into the past.