The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
An anti-nuclear protest poster featuring the characteristic mushroom cloud of an atomic explosion as the main design component. In the upper segment is the B-29 Superfortress bomber 'Enola Gay', which dropped its cargo of a nuclear bomb over Hiroshima, and a photograph of Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., Pilot of the 'Enola Gay', waving from his cockpit before the takeoff, on Tinian island, 06 August 6, 1945 (Source: EPA/US National Archive). Overlaid in the lower forground is a sillouhette of 'Little boy' which detonated over Hiroshima, within which is an image of Allied personnel looking across the devastated city.
A poster advertising an anti-uranium rally on the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in Japan during the Second World War. The poster depicts a nuclear reactor with an atomic 'mushroom' c
A poster produced for the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The poster depicts the Peace Memorial and two Japanese men in the foreground. In the background an aerial view of the cit
A protest poster campaigning against the use of nuclear weapons. The poster depicts a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt which is adorned with the repeated images of palm trees, mushroom clouds from nuclear
The main street of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped, inset with a photograph of the street prior to the bombing. On 6 August 1945 an atomic bomb codenamed "Little Boy" was dropped by a B-29
This poster is a reappropriation of a British First World War recruitment poster 'Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?' by Savile Lumley. Depicts a father sitting in an armchair at home looking at
A porcelain saucer that is intact with pieces of other pottery fused to it by molten glass. These broken ceramic and glass pieces were collected at Hiroshima by the Australian Military History Secti
