"Thermal radiation heat burns; a boy was exposed to thermal rays about 2km from hypocenter." This ...

Accession Number P05395.014
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Print
Maker US Army
Place made Japan: Nagasaki
Date made November 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

"Thermal radiation heat burns; a boy was exposed to thermal rays about 2km from hypocenter." This image is one of 20 photographs from an educational box set published in 1986 by the Hiroshima Institute for Peace Education for the Japanese Teachers Union (JTU). This Hiroshima-Nagasaki resource was once used by the Peace Education Resource Centre (PERC) in Queensberry Street, Carlton, Melbourne, Australia.

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