Ground Zero 1945: Pictures by Atomic Bomb Survivors

HORIKOSHI Susumu 堀越 進 (ほりこし　すすむ)
Growing mushroom cloud, glittering silver under the mid-summer sun.
真夏の太陽に照らされて銀色に輝き大きくなっていったキノコ雲
Year of Birth: 1938 \ Age at time of blast: 6 \ Age when image created: 36
Date of image depicted: 1945/8/6
Distance from hypocenter in meters: 30000
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
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The following is unaltered text from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum database:
Silver mushroom cloud / Drawing / Susumu Horikoshi / Approx. 30km from the hypocenter, Kake-cho, Yamagata-gun / Susumu Horikoshi (then 6) saw the flash and heard a loud roar as if lighting had struck nearby. Soon, from the other side of the mountain, a mushroom cloud rose into the sky. As the cloud gradually swelled it glinted a brilliant silver under the sun.

銀色のきのこ雲 / 　絵／堀越進氏爆心地から約30km / 　 山県郡加計町 / 堀越進さん(当時6歳)は､ピカッと光った後､雷が落ちたような大きな音を聞きました｡まもなく山の向こうにきのこ雲が立ち上っていました｡きのこ雲は､太陽に照らされ銀色に輝き､徐々に大きくなっていきました｡

＊＊絵中 : 昭和二〇年八月六日午前八時十五分 / ピカーと光り三秒位い後にドカーンと雷が落ちたような大きな音がし、まもなく山の向うに大きなキノコ雲が真夏の太陽に照らされて銀色に輝き、だんだん大きくなっていった。 / 当時八才だった私は爆心地より北方約三〇キロ広島県山県郡加計町安野渡畑より見る。 / ＊＊裏 : 堀越進絵 (原爆の絵)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology ©2005 Visualizing Cultures

Living in the only society to ever use a nuclear weapon against other human beings, I think there needs to be an understanding of just how catastrophic the effects of such a weapon can be. The link is to a UCLA project where they compiled the stories and art work of nuclear blast survivors from Japan.

Children of the Atomic Bomb.

- Matt Ruiz