On Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb for the first time in war over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Shinichi Tetsutani (then 3 years and 11 months) loved to ride this tricycle. That morning, he was riding in front of his house when, in a sudden flash, he and his tricycle were badly burned. He died that night.
Learn more about Shinichi and his family at the Hiroshima Memorial Museum website.
Shinichi was one of hundreds of thousands killed and many more who were injured and/or displaced by the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Here are resources for learning more about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
- “A Veteran Against War” by Howard Zinn, a WWII veteran, who recounts,
Hiroshima and Royan were crucial in my gradual rethinking of what I had once accepted without question—the absolute morality of the war against fascism.
- “W. E. B. Du Bois to Malcolm X: The Untold History of the Movement to Ban the Bomb” by Vincent Intondi
- Democracy Now! archives on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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