Trinity Doll Items donated by Kurakichi Tsuda, Shigeharu Fukuoka, and Kiyo Ueda Displayed at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

    The place to go for more information on the appearance of Hiroshima after the bombing is the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. NHK Special: These Things We Left - Hiroshima’s Warning was aired in 1982 and had a great impact on many viewers. The so-called Trinity Doll, on display at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, consists of items belonging to three students who were mobilized for the demolition of buildings in the city. The personal effects of these students are a symbol of the museum.

The Earth after Nuclear War
    Nuclear Winter, written by Professor Carl Sagan et al in 1983, again revived popular awareness of the horror of nuclear war.
    What would become of mankind and the planet after a nuclear war? It was the inevitable question for every inhabitant of Earth living in the nuclear age. NHK tackled this difficult question in an NHK Special series called, Predictions by World Scientists: The Earth after a Nuclear War. (1984). This documentary series was based on scientific premises and produced in three parts: (1) Global Inferno, (2) Frozen Earth, and (3) Viewer Reactions. High viewer-ratings were registered throughout the series: 24.1% for the first episode, 20.2% for the second, and 16.9% for the third. The program was aired in dozens of countries, although there was also criticism that it took sides in the Cold War. Global audiences, too, were keenly aware of the threat being posed to the planet.

    *NHK Special Predictions by World Scientists: The Earth after a Nuclear War (1984)

NHK Special Predictions by World Scientists: The Earth after a Nuclear War (1984)

Radio: Recounting Hiroshima
    A new radio series, Recounting Hiroshima, began in the summer of 1982.
    During the occupation, when newspaper and broadcasting media were still tightly controlled, a group of A-bomb survivors in Hiroshima, Sadako Kurihara, Tamiyoshi Hara, Shinoe Shoda, Yoko Ota, and Sankichi Toge, published Tamashii no Shishu (Soul Poems). Sadako Kurihara's poem, It Has to Be Born, was inspired by the true story of a young mother giving birth to her child in the basement of the ruined Hiroshima Postal Savings building early in the evening of the day after the A-bombing.

    "A baby is about to be born!" On hearing the voice, a sorely wounded woman groaned, "I am a midwife. I can help!" "I want this baby to live, even if I die." The midwife died before the dawn, but the new life was born.
    *Readings of Life series Bequeathing the Truths of Hiroshima to Posterity by Sadako Kurihara (1982)