中文報導連結：
http://www.epochtimes.com/b5/16/5/19/n7910115.htm
國外媒體報導(含圖源)：
http://goo.gl/MFhCmm
廣島原爆珍貴照片 美致贈日紀念資料館
更新: 2016-05-19 5:29 PM 標籤: 原子彈, 廣島和平紀念館, 日本廣島, 長崎
【大紀元2016年05月19日訊】（中央社華盛頓18日綜合外電報導）1945年8月6日和9日，
美國接連在日本廣島和長崎投下原子彈。數日後，陸軍將領葛羅夫斯（Leslie Groves）
在華盛頓的戰爭部對政府高層簡報。
法新社與巴基斯坦世界新聞（DunyaNews Pakistan）報導，葛羅夫斯帶去簡報的照片，大
概連身經百戰的將領，看了都會震驚不已。
這些解析度不錯的黑白照，拍攝到界定現代歷史軌跡的兩朵蕈狀雲，也照到大爆炸後，日
本這兩座城市慘遭夷平，多數建築物瞬間消失，只有比較堅固的建築物殘存的景象。
葛羅夫斯是「曼哈頓計畫」（Manhattan Project）主持人，也就是歐本海默（Robert
Oppenheimer）等物理學家設計和製造世界首批核彈的計畫。
華府智庫「史汀生研究中心」（Stimson Center）共同創辦人克蘭普（Michael Krepon）
本週對法新社展示照片時表示：「如果你是內閣閣員，或是少數幾位聽取簡報的人，想想
那種…敬畏和恐懼感。」
「你無從抵禦這種炸彈。」
史汀生研究中心1990年代取得這些照片，但克蘭普去年才決定要致贈日本的廣島和平紀念
資料館。
中心和館方協商好展示方式後，未來數週將把照片送往日本。克蘭普說，照片約有20張。
照片的致贈時機，正逢歷史時刻。
本月27日，奧巴馬將成為首位訪問廣島的美國現任總統。他將由日本首相安倍晉三陪同，
前往廣島和平紀念公園致意。
United States Gifts Atomic Bomb Images To Hiroshima Museum
May 19, 2016 15:09 IST
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A picture taken by the US military shows the title photo of a mushroom cloud
from one of the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in August 1945. (AFP Photo)
WASHINGTON:
HIGHLIGHTS
Photos were taken days after US dropped atomic bombs on Japan
President Obama will be first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima
US officials have said there will be no apology for city's devastation
Days after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
an Army leader briefed a group of top government officials at the Department
of War in Washington.
The officer, Major General Leslie Groves, carried with him a bundle of photos
that may have shocked even those war-hardened men.
In fine resolution, the black-and-white pictures depicted the two mushroom
clouds that defined the course of modern history, and showed what was left of
the Japanese cities after the mega-blasts of August 6 and 9, 1945.
Groves had directed the Manhattan Project, in which physicists including
Robert Oppenheimer designed and created the world's first nuclear bombs.
"If you were a cabinet secretary, or one of the few who received this
briefing, think of the sense of ... awe and dread," Michael Krepon,
co-founder of Washington think tank the Stimson Center, said this week as he
showed news agency AFP the historic images.
"There's no defense against this bomb."
The institution has had the photographs since the 1990s, but Krepon last year
decided to gift them to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
After negotiations about how the photos would be displayed, they will be sent
to Japan in the coming weeks.
"Not many people get to see this at the Stimson Center, it truly belongs I
think with them as part of the historical record, so I reached out," Krepon
said of the collection of 20 or so images.
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A detail of an aerial picture taken by the US military in the days after the
second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. (AFP Photo)
The photographic gift comes at a historic moment.
On May 27, President Barack Obama will become the first sitting US president
to visit Hiroshima, where he will pay his respects at Hiroshima's Peace
Memorial Park accompanied by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
US officials have stressed there would be no apology for the city's
devastation. To this day, historians and politicians debate whether the
horrendous civilian toll justified hastening the end of World War II.
About 140,000 people died after a B-29 bomber dropped its payload, code named
Little Boy, on Hiroshima.
The weapon exploded at a height of about 500 yards (meters), generating a
massive fireball and blast wave that leveled the entire city, killing tens of
thousands of people.
Many more succumbed to injuries or illnesses caused by radiation in the
weeks, months and years afterward.
The southern city of Nagasaki was hit by a second bomb, killing 74,000 people.
Japan's Emperor Hirohito surrendered on August 15, 1945.
Vast swaths of both cities, including many military and industrial
installations, were obliterated. The Stimson Center photos capture some of
this destruction.
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Damage assessment is seen on an aerial picture taken by the US military in
the days after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6,
1945. (AFP Photo)
One annotated image lists Hiroshima's railroad station, gas works, power
station and textile mill as all being "100 percent" destroyed.
Damage in Nagasaki was described in similar terms, with a Mitsubishi plant, a
steel and arms works and other factories all gone.
The photographs show how most structures disappeared, with only the strongest
brick and steel buildings partially spared seemingly at random.
The Stimson Center obtained the photographs through a connection to Harvey
Bundy, who was special assistant to Henry Stimson, the war secretary at the
time from whom the Stimson Center takes its name.
Bundy was briefed by Groves, and his son, McGeorge Bundy, eventually
bequeathed the images to the Stimson Center.
Had Japan not surrendered after the Nagasaki attack, the United States was
prepared to keep dropping atomic bombs.
A potential target was the picturesque city of Kyoto, famed for its Buddhist
temples and gardens. But Stimson, who had previously visited the city, ruled
out its destruction.
"There was immense relief that after these two bombs, the emperor
intervened," said Krepon, a nuclear expert who worked under the
administration of president Jimmy Carter on US-Soviet arms control.