Hiroshima, Four Years After - A victim of the bombing is measured in a study of the effects of nuclear contamination
date: label: Date made
content: 1949
name: label: photographer
content: Mydans, Carl
notes: label: Description
content: On August 6, 1945, a B-29 plane, the <i>Enola Gay</i>, 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan: Hiroshima, Hiroshima
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
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content: Carl Mydans
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Mydans, Carl. Carl Mydans, Photojournalist
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0228.129
label: accession number
content: 2005.0228
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0228.129
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 11 in; 35.56 cm x 27.94 cm