A survey of physical damage of bomb blasts in Nagasaki, Japan after World War II. A valley. Damaged Shirayama School. Partial collapse of the building. Collapse of two wooden truss workshops in the foreground. The collapsed school building in the background. Displaced structural parts and partial failure of the walls. A collapsed reinforced concrete stairwell. A sag in the roof and marked distortion in reinforced concrete column of the building. Distortion of the reinforced concrete beam and the roof. Displacement of the school building wall. Buckled reinforced concrete floor.
A survey of physical damage of bomb blasts in Nagasaki, Japan after World War II. Failure of the roof of the Shirayama School. The back of the building protected from blast. Two members of a physical team inspect the effect of the blast on an institute for deaf and dumb. Captain Orin and his assistant stretch a tape along the wall of the institute in order to ascertain the extent of structural failure. The team measures the displacement of a hollow pored concrete vent on the institute building. Members of the physical damage team work on the second floor of the institute. Collapse of the back wall of the institute. The physical damage team measures the extent of displacement and distortion. Reinforcements loose from the concrete of the wall.
A survey of physical damage of bomb blasts in Nagasaki, Japan after World War II. Twisted and distorted frame supports of a gas holder. Damaged reinforced concrete buildings in the background. Distorted frame supports of the gas holder. The ruptured dome of the gas holder. Distorted frame structures on the ground.
A survey of physical damage of bomb blasts in Nagasaki, Japan after World War II. A crumpled wall of the Nagasaki Prison. Remaining portion of the wall still standing. Collapsed cell block walls of the prison. Two round poured concrete wall casings which withstood the blast. The cell block in the foreground is completely demolished. A smoke stack of a boiler house and a concrete water tank.
A survey of physical damage of bomb blasts in Nagasaki, Japan after World War II. A smoke stack of a boiler house which withstood the blast. Wrecked frame structure of a factory in the foreground. An open hearth furnace portion of the Mitsubishi Small Arms Plant as seen from a moving flat car traveling on the Nagasaki main line.
Atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan by United States during World War II. Aerial view of the mushroom cloud resulting from atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. Beginning at TC: 00:23, in the lower left frame of the clip, the Urakami river can be seen where it flows into the Nagasaki harbor. Clouds around the smoke. (Filmed by Harold Agnew from the B-29 "The Great Artiste," which flew as observer aircraft on both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions.)