Jan 05 2009
atomic clock
This is a clock that’s on display in the Australian War Memorial museum, in Canberra. It was found near the epicentre of one of the first atom bomb explosions (not sure if it was Hiroshima or Nagasaki).
The hands show the time of the explosion (which would make this more likely the Hiroshima bombing, around 8:30am, rather than the Nagasaki bombing, around 11:00am). You can see how the glass face was melted by the heat and has dripped off the bottom.
Photo: “Japanese clock melted by WWII nuclear bomb” by maembij. Taken 17 February 2005 on a Canon Ixus 40. CC by-sa 2.0.
