Skeletal

I took a trip to Japan with some friends, back in 2002, and one of our stops was Hiroshima. I snapped some photos of this building, the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, which was at ground zero of the atomic bomb dropped on August 6th, 1945.

I was surprised any of it was still standing; the Cold War-inspired movies of the 1980s gave me the impression that nuclear weapons left nothing standing in their wake, and I wasn't yet aware of the fact that the bombs dropped on Japan were small by more modern standards. Still, it was a ghostly place. I should go back one day.