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Indeed, the city’s distinct geography allowed most of its older neighborhoods to survive the terrible destruction wrought by the second atomic bomb to be dropped on Japan, on 9 August 1945 — despite the fact that the Nagasaki bomb was more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima three days earlier.
And no Hollywood animated feature would end with such a powerful vision of apocalypse, as the land is bestridden by a colossus dropping a thick, caustic, tarlike gel that recalls the post-Hiroshima "black rain."
Bin Ladin had reportedly been heard to speak of wanting a "Hiroshima"and at least 10,000 casualties.
In 1960, Penderecki exploded the lyrical associations of the string orchestra in his Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima for 52 stringed instruments, a brutal piece commemorating an act of violence.
(It takes about 25 minutes from Hiroshima to Miyajima-guchi Station via Japan Railways, and then 10 minutes by ferry to the island. )