In the United States, museums devoted to atomic bombs are called "science" museums. They feature displays about nuclear scientists, hands-on displays containing radioactive materials, and a theater that simulates what it is like to watch a nuclear test explosion at close range. But in Japan, the two cities decimated by atomic bombs in 1945 have their own museums devoted to the atomic bomb. They are called "peace" museums. Displays include a child's lunchbox full of ashes, human bones embedded in molten glass, and photographs of victims, their bodies disfigured with burns.
Join Bud Ryan as he uncovers what the Bomber can learn from the Bombed, in A Tale of Two Museums. Using atomic bomb museums as a jumping off point from which to take a broad survey of perspectives on the bomb, this documentary brings the subject of nuclear weapons back into the public view at a critical time.
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