Image Day: Nagasaki Peace Memorial

Halls for the Atomic Bomb Victims are located in both Nagasaki and Hiroshima, cities which suffered bombings.

They were built in order to stress-upon people, of the sacrifices made by those who died after exposure to the bombings.

> Image of Nagasaki Peace Memorial

In Time: Atom bomb hits Nagasaki

American forces have dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki - the second such attack on Japan in three days. About 30% of Nagasaki, including almost all the industrial district was destroyed by the bomb and nearly 74,000 were killed and a similar number injured.

> Kayoko Iwanaga tells her family's story

Department of Fear-Ministry!

Lame? Awe-inspiring? Too Web 2.0-ish? Does it suck? If you’re not sure, why not compare it to this sampling of logos.


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Allen Ginsberg's America

Seen on: YouTube

America
America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
America two dollars and twenty-seven cents January 17, 1956.
I can't stand my own mind.

America when will we end the human war?

- Allen Ginsberg

Face to Face with Allen Ginsberg

Seen on: Google Video

Allen Ginsberg talks about writing private-poetry. He saw his generation fade away in madness, and started writing unpublishable poems.

Explicit and vivid interview, by Jeremy Isaacs. Still some-how relevant today.