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05 May 2008 10:47 am
The Horror Of War
In the past, we've been sheltered from the full force of the human horror of Hiroshima. No longer:
The Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution
Archives contains ten never-before-published photographs
illustrating the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. These
photographs, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer, were found in 1945 among
rolls of undeveloped film in a cave outside Hiroshima by U.S. serviceman Robert
L. Capp, who was attached to the occupation forces. Unlike most photos of the
Hiroshima bombing, these dramatically convey the human as well as material
destruction unleashed by the atomic bomb. Mr. Capp donated them to the Hoover
Archives in 1998 with the provision that they not be reproduced until 2008.
Three of these photographs are reproduced in Atomic Tragedy with the permission
of the Capp family. Now that the restriction is no longer in force, the entire set is available.
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