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3-D imaging display system allows viewers to experience the devastation of Nagasaki after A-bomb attack
A new 3-D imaging display system in Japan allows viewers to experience the devastation of Nagasaki immediately after the 1945 atomic bombing. Virtual Genshiya (Virtual atomic wasteland), developed by Takashi Fujiki, a professor of technology education at Nagasaki University, uses computer graphics to give viewers a panoramic view of a 500-meter radius of ground zero…
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Medical records of world’s first radiation victim from A-bomb recovered
Long-lost medical records detailing the sharply deteriorating health of the world’s first recognized radiation sickness patient have been recovered 68 years after the victim died within weeks of being exposed to the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. The patient, Midori Naka, a stage actress, died 18 days after she was injured in the nuclear blast on…
