Hiroshima, Nagasaki atomic-bombing exhibit to be in Pearl Harbor on 75th anniversary of blasts

FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii — The cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will for the first time send a traveling atomic-bomb exhibit to Hawaii, where it will be displayed on the Battleship Missouri Memorial through the 75th anniversary of the August 1945 nuclear bombing of those cities.

The exhibit will present about 30 panels and 20 items showing the effects of the atomic bomb explosions on the two cities, said Katsunobu Hamaoka, deputy director of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. It will include items such as a statue, lunchbox and clothing, all deformed and altered due to the extreme nature of the nuclear detonation.

The exhibit will be accessible on the mess decks of the historic battleship and open to all visitors paying the general admission of $29.99 from July through Sept. 2, the date Japan officially surrendered in 1945 and ended World War II. The surrender ceremony was held aboard the USS Missouri, which was anchored in Tokyo Bay at the time.

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