The museum also had a room-sized simulation of how the bombing occurred. You stood next to a circular area that had a diameter of a dozen feet and got an aerial view of the city. Then you saw the B-29 arriving and letting go off the bomb. And then you saw the blast, the mushroom cloud, and the shock waves, and then the devastation.Īmong the casualties were the 20,000 Koreans who had been brought over by the Japanese as forced laborers. Unknown to the Americans, 12 US soldiers were serving as prisoners of war in Hiroshima and died in the blast.
