The document contains a series of questions about an image showing the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Some of the questions seek to understand details about the photo such as whether it depicts soldiers or civilians, what specific bomb is pictured, and how the devastation compares to predictions. Other questions discuss the moral implications of the bombings and nuclear weapons more broadly, such as the impact on victims and future policy.
1. • Where are they going?
• I can feel a sense of solidarity coming from the men in this photo.
• Demograph of the other
• US concentration camp?
• Soldiers or survivors?
2. • A Japanese victim or American worker?
• Did he/she survive?
3. • This bomb is called “big boy”.
• Was this dropped on a city?
• Is this real or a model?
• Is this the actual bomb?
• Did the women see this?
• Looks like a toy.
• How is this different from the other bomb pictured?
4. • Amazing that some buildings still stood.
• After math and destruction
• The greatest thing television has done is bring the reality of war into the home. It
doesn’t prevent war, but I hope it prevents this sort of devastation.
• Looks devastating.
5. • What choices would these women had made had they known?
• What influence did this have on future policy on nuclear and chemical weapons?
• Was it worth this?
6. • Does not look so destructive as it actually is.
7. • What is this picture showing us?
• The impact of the bomb seems worse on the victims than on thsese bottles
8. • How does this better our world/country? Our lives?
• What is the point?
• Do you feel better now?
• Does this make you feel safe?
• Someone’s home town
9. • How did the predictions of the destruction of the A-bomb compare to the reality?
• Awestruck at similar devastation after the bom and after the tsunami.
10. • I don’t know I could live with this on my hands.
• Whose lives are more valuable?
• Was this a worker or victim of the bomb?
• Did they provide any protective any equipment for the women or warn them of the risks?
11. • Exactly what caused this?
• How well was all this predicted?
• This woman’s burns are in the pattern of her kimono.
12. • How old?
• How much was the secrecy at Oak Ridge enforced to prevent moral objection?
• Why must it come to this?
• Do the people responsible care that this is an innocent child who had nothing to do with
the war?
• Or was this a child soldier?
