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Alessandro Mendini

As architect, he designed several buildings; for example the Alessi residence in Omegna, Italy; the theater complex "Teatrino della Bicchieraia" in the Tuscan city of Arezzo; the Forum Museum of Omegna, a memorial tower in Hiroshima, Japan; the Groninger Museum in The Netherlands and the Arosa Casino in Switzerland.

Anthony Glavin

Anthony was haunted by the fact that his birth-date, 7 August 1945 (a Bank Holiday in Ireland), was just one day after Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima; that his coming into the world coincided with an event that abruptly altered the world's "historical velocity."

Art destruction

Other works of art were destroyed in the Blitz, in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and throughout Southeast Asia.

Asano clan

Asano Nagaakira (1586-1632), brother of Yukinaga, first Asano lord of Hiroshima.

Australian rules football in Asia

Australian rules football in Japan is coordinated by the AFL Japan, with a national league based mainly in Tokyo (affiliated with the Australian Football League) but with clubs in Osaka, Nagoya and Hiroshima.

Azamat Abduraimov

Most notable of his international appearances was 1994 Asian Games football tournament in Hiroshima, where Uzbekistan team won the gold medal.

Baxterville, Mississippi

The Project Salmon blast was about one-third as powerful as the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.

Boucheron

The distribution network of Boucheron is made of 34 shops located all over the world (Paris, Cannes, Saint-Tropez, Monaco, Beirut, London, San Francisco, Tokyo, Saitama, Yokohama, Fukuoka, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Okayama, Nagoya, Taipei, Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, Baku, Moscow and Almaty) and over 100 certified retailers.

Charles Donald Albury

On August 9, 1945, just three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, Sweeney's crew, with Albury as co-pilot, took off in the B-29 Superfortress, nicknamed the Bockscar, which would drop the atomic bomb known as the "Fat Man" on the city of Nagasaki.

On August 6, 1945, Albury witnessed the first atomic bombing of Hiroshima as pilot of the instrument observation plane, The Great Artiste, which accompanied the Enola Gay commanded by Tibbets.

City Arts Centre, Dublin

This included early shows by John Kindness amongst others including an exhibition of drawings from the survivors of Hiroshima, organised in association with a young U2.

Effects of nuclear explosions on human health

In humans however, Microcephaly is the only proven malformation, or congenital abnormality, found in the in Utero developing Human fetuses present during the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.

Ernest Ferlita

Ferlita have been produced Off-Off Broadway at the Actor's Outlet Theatre under the direction of Ken Lowstetter: The Obelisk, and Two Cities, a double bill of two one-act plays The Mask of Hiroshima (published in Best Short Plays 1989) and The Bells of Nagasaki.

Hakubun Shimomura

He refused to intercede in a debate over the censorship of the manga Barefoot Gen, which depicts the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Japan's culpability in World War II, by a school board in Matsue, stating that young students may not be able to understand its depictions properly.

Hiroden Streetcar Route 3

Hiroden Streetcar route #3 Hiroden-nishi-hiroshima – Hiroshima Port Route runs between Hiroden-nishi-hiroshima Station and Hiroshima Port.

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck

The committee's important contribution (originating with Rose) was a reduction in the size of the firing gun for the Little Boy atomic bomb, a concept which eliminated additional design-weight and sped up production of the bomb for its eventual release over Hiroshima.

John R. Huizenga

During World War II, Huizenga supervised teams at the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tenn. involved in enriching uranium used in the atomic weapon dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945.

John van Kesteren

With van Karajan and the same orchestra, Van Kesteren sang at the 25th commemoration in Beethoven's ninth symphony and Missa Solemnis in Hiroshima and sang the Evangelist in the first Russian performance of the St Matthew Passion in Moscow.

Kapelle der Versöhnung

The chapel also has a replica of Coventry Cathedral’s Statue of Reconciliation, a gift of the Cathedral found in Hiroshima and Belfast too – also places emerging from the destructiveness of war.

Koko Kondo

In 1955, both appeared on the popular television program This Is Your Life where they were placed in the uncomfortable position of meeting with Captain Robert A. Lewis, copilot of the Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

LGM-118 Peacekeeper

With live warheads, each would have the explosive power of twenty-five Hiroshima-sized (Little Boy) nuclear weapons

Little boy

Little Boy, the codename of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

Lorne Saxberg

Saxberg received an Edward R. Murrow Award award for his work on the coverage of the 60th anniversary of the bomb at Hiroshima.

Ludwig von 88

Some of their songs are satires on stars like Louison Bobet, Nicolae Ceauşescu, Maria Callas, Jacques Chirac, Jodie Foster or deal with more serious topics like war: "Libannais raides", "Hiroshima"; drugs: "Le Manège enchanté", "Kaliman"; and misery: "LSD for Ethiopie", "In the Ghettos" — always with irony.

Mayors for Peace

Mayors for Peace is an international organization of cities dedicated to the promotion of peace that was established in 1982 at the initiative of then mayor of Hiroshima Takeshi Araki.

McDonald Ranch House

The weapon used against Hiroshima was a uranium bomb, a type not tested prior to its use in World War II, because it had a simpler design.

Miloslav Topinka

The book is about such people and events as Nerval, Rimbaud, Buhl; and Hiroshima.

Mundialization

To date, more than 1000 cities and towns have declared themselves World Cities including Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Toronto, Hiroshima, Tokyo, Nivelles, and Königswinter.

Naka-ku, Hiroshima

Air China has an office on the 11th floor of the NBF Hiroshima Tatemachi Building in Naka-ku.

Naonori Kohira

Kohira and Paul Saffo, who was then a Roy Amara fellow at Institute for the Future, traveled together in Japan and the US, thinking about how they should tell about the tragedies caused by the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the world in the next 100 years.

Nuclear art

The Nuclear art was an artistic tendency developed by some European artists and painters, after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Original Child Bomb

Original Child Bomb begins with a recreation of the dropping of Little Boy from the perspective of Hiroshima's residents.

Ribosome Recycling Factor

The ribosome recycling factor was discovered in the early 1970s by the work of Akira Kaji and Akikazu Hiroshima at the University of Pennsylvania.

Robert Heyssel

After serving with the United States Public Health Service in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan between 1956 and 1958, he returned to the United States as a fellow in hematology at Washington University in St. Louis.

Saijō

Saijō, Hiroshima, was a town located in Hiba District, Hiroshima, Japan

Scared Sacred

Scared Sacred is an award winning feature length documentary that takes viewers to many of the places in the world that have experienced great suffering in recent years including Bhopal, Hiroshima, Israel and Palestine.

Shadow Project

The band was named after a study of the effects of nuclear bombs in Hiroshima.

Shamoji

It is said to have been first devised by a monk on Itsukushima, Hiroshima Prefecture.

Shinzo Hamai

In addition, Hamai worked to establish ties with foreign peace activists, such as Norman Cousins, who first visited Hiroshima in 1949.

Stepan Atayan

Stepan Atayan alongside with the national team of Uzbekistan won against China in the 1994 Asian Games which took place in Hiroshima Japan, where he was awarded with a gold metal.

The Ash Garden

He becomes a part of the Manhattan Project, witnesses the tests, and travels to Hiroshima recording the aftermath.

The Hiroshima Panels

The Hiroshima Panels have also been the subject of the 1987 Academy Award nominated documentary Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi

Jacob Beser - the only member of the strike crews for both Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Yakuza film

The films star Bunta Sugawara (often thought of as the anti-Ken Takakura) as a sneering ex-soldier who rises to power in the bombed-out Hiroshima underworld.

Yūtarō

Yutaro Hara (born 1990), Japanese footballer for Sanfrecce Hiroshima


see also

Furuichi Station

Furuichibashi Station, a station on the JR West Kabe Line in Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan