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Image 1. About one month after the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945, an allied correspondent examines the landscape of destruction at Hiroshima, Japan. (AP Photo) 

Image 2. Damage to the grass growing in the moat of Hiroshima Castle About 980m from the hypocenter.

Image 3. Boneset plant with variegated coloration. Location: Moto-machi. Distance from hypocenter: approx. 900m This boneset plant grew in the ruins of the Imperial Headquarters at Hiroshima Castle. Radiation damage caused unusual white coloration. Setaria viridis and Cyperus microiria growing in the same area showed no such damage. 

Image 4. Phytolacca esculenta with unusual coloration. Location: Moto-machi. Distance from hypocenter: approx. 900m This Phytolacca esculenta grew in the ruins of the Imperial Headquarters at Hiroshima Castle. Radiation damage caused unusual coloration and deformation of the leaves. 

Image 5. Nakarora #1056

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 With the future in such a state of uncertainty and political relations more tense than ever, there is a silent threat that could end up being more deadly and dangerous for humanity than a hundred pandemics: nuclear weapons. It has been 75 years since the United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, effectively ending World War II and killing more than 100,000 people, most of whom were civilians. The bombing of Nagasaki was the second and last time that a country deployed a nuclear weapon in combat. However, it was not the last nuclear explosion, since controlled explosion tests continued for years.

Due to the growing concern about an incessant practice of detonations of different nuclear weapons around the world, it is feared that the nations involved are willing to generate future damage due to military actions, it is for this reason that "The Last Nuclear Bomb Memorial" is proposed inciting reflection through the memory of our past and aiming to put an end to interests in causing the dame damage as past generations.

The garden.

A simple project that proposes the insertion of a single circular light slot inside a nuclear test crater aims to frame the gestures of violence, the impact of human war on earth, and the damage it generates to any living being.

*A place of commemoration for all communities, human and non-human affected by their past.

The proposal emphasizes the nature that emerges inside a crater left by the act of destruction (a metaphor for how life can arise from something as harmful as a nuclear weapon). At night, it is shown in a vacuum that the silhouettes of visitors shine and stand out: spectacularly small bodies when related to the immensity of the cavity / catastrophe. The idea of creating a wild garden in the middle of a well is a concept that aims to generate a message of reflection on the responsibility we have with respect to life.