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Hiroshima atomic bombing and peace memorial

6 August 1945-present remembrance · Japan

The United States atomic bombing destroyed Hiroshima and killed civilians on a vast scale; hibakusha testimony and the preserved Genbaku Dome anchor global nuclear memory.

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AI-generated evidence-guided visualization related to Hiroshima atomic bombing and peace memorial, 6 August 1945-present remembrance. — AI-generated non-graphic visualization based on the cited record and memorial context. It is not documentary evidence or an authenticated reconstruction of the bombing or its victims.

How the setting appeared

A dense modern city was devastated by blast, heat and radiation; the rebuilt city retains ruins, memorials, homes and workplaces.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-HIROSHIMACIT-CORE136-HIROSHIMA-CITY Setting and material context · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

How people lived

Survivors faced injury, bereavement, radiation illness, displacement and discrimination while rebuilding families and civic life.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-HIROSHIMACIT-CORE136-HIROSHIMA-CITY Lifeways and community · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

How people worked

Emergency care, burial, documentation, reconstruction, testimony and peace education followed wartime industrial and military systems.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-HIROSHIMACIT-CORE136-HIROSHIMA-CITY Work, tools and exchange · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Belief, ritual and worship

Buddhist, Shinto, Christian and secular commemorations mourn victims; the atlas does not generate a spectacle of the bombing.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-HIROSHIMACIT-CORE136-HIROSHIMA-CITY Belief, ritual and evidence limits · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

World-atlas stage: Decolonization and globalization
Region: East Asia · Japan
Languages and scripts: Japanese; English
Important people: Sadako Sasaki; Setsuko Thurlow
Events and changes: The United States detonated an atomic bomb over Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m. on 6 August 1945 CE.; Blast, heat, fire and ionizing radiation killed and injured civilians on a vast scale in 1945 CE; later mortality estimates depend on date, boundary and method.; Hibakusha documented acute and long-term effects while confronting displacement, bereavement and discrimination after 1945 CE.; The Hiroshima Peace Memorial City Construction Law was enacted in 1949 CE and shaped postwar reconstruction and commemoration.; The preserved Genbaku Dome, peace park, archives and survivor testimony became major sites and records of nuclear-war remembrance.
Evidence confidence: Extensive documents and survivor testimony; the visual is intentionally a nonviolent living-city image, not an atrocity recreation.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-HIROSHIMACIT-CORE136-HIROSHIMA-CITY Dates, place, language, people, events and confidence · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Historical geography

A dated anchor, not an exact border

The local map uses modern coastlines only for orientation. The marker identifies this record's geographic anchor, not the full reach of a community or polity.

Map geometry loads only when requested. Modern outlines are orientation only; historical geography and identities changed through time.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-HIROSHIMACIT-CORE136-HIROSHIMA-CITY Historical-geography anchor and stated limits · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Evidence register

Guides used for this record

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CIT-CORE-HIROSHIMA

Hiroshima atomic bombing and peace memorial: record evidence guide

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/775/

whc.unesco.org

CIT-CORE136-HIROSHIMA-CITY

The Atomic Bombing and the Spirit of Hiroshima

https://www.city.hiroshima.lg.jp/english/peace/1029867/1033035/1009888.html

City of Hiroshima

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