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For August, 2025, the calendar features the International Friendship Bell located at AK Bissell Park in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The bell was cast in Kyoto, Japan in 1993, and is a symbol of peace and unity between the United States and Japan.

Shigeko Uppuluri, an Oak Ridge resident born in Japan, and her husband, Dr. Ram Uppuluri, an employee of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, had the proposal to create the bell after visiting a Buddhist temple in Japan. Oak Ridge artist Suzanna Harris designed two of the outer bell panels – one of Tennessee symbols and the other of Japanese symbols.

International Friendship Bell Tennessee Panel — Tennessee panel of the International Friendship Bell.

International Friendship Bell Japan Panel — Japanese panel of the International Friendship Bell.

The other two panels commemorate the dates of Pearl Harbor, V-J Day, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Commemorative Dates on the International Friendship Bell — One of the commemorative dates on the panels of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The pavilion that houses the bell was designed by Jon Coddington, combining elements of Asian and Western architecture reflecting East Tennessee’s cantilevered barns.

The bell is rung commemoratively on August 6, for each year since the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. This year will mark the 80th anniversary of “Little Boy” being dropped on Hiroshima, and the National Park Serivce will ring the bell 80 times at dawn (6:47 AM EDT) on Wednesday, August 6, 2025.

You can download this month’s calendar that includes significant atomic events that occured in August over the years as well as a listing of all the atomic shots conducted.

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This month features the sculpture by Henry Moore of Nuclear Energy, located on the University of Chicago Campus near the approximate site of Enrico Fermi’s Chicago Pile-1, the world’s first nuclear reactor. The sculpture has been described as representing both the creative (symbolized by the pillars with arches like a protective cathedral on the bottom) and the destructive (mushroom cloud on the top slightly resembling a skull) sides of nuclear energy.

The sculpture was dedicated on the 25th anniversary of the initiation of the first self-sustaining controlled nuclear reaction by Enrico Fermi on December 2, 1942. It was unveiled at exactly 3:36 PM on December 2, 1967.

Also included in this month’s calendar are some significant Atomic Events in July which, of course, includes the Trinity Test on July 16, 1945. During July, from 1945 through 1990, 72 nuclear tests, both atomospheric and underground, were conducted.

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Trinity Tower replica with gadget at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History — Trinity Tower replica with Gadget at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History

This month’s calendar features the superstructure of the Trinity Tower replica in Heritage Park at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A replica of the Gadget is being hoisted up to the top of the tower.

The Museum’s nine-acre outdoor Heritage Park, in addition to the Trinity Tower, is full of planes, rockets, missiles, cannons, and a nuclear sub sail. In the Park, the Museum also has one of the few, complete 280 MM Atomic Cannons (Atomic Annie) including the transport vehicles.

In addition to the calendar, this month presents some of the Atomic Events that occured in June through the years (1920 to 1954) as well as the 135 Atomic Shots that occured between 1946 and 1992. This includes the first post-war shot, Crossroads: Able (June 30, 1946), which was the first nuclear weapons tests since Trinity and the first detoniation of a nuclear device since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.

The Museum of Nuclear Science and History

The National Museum of Nuclear Science and History presents both permanent and changing exhibits of the diverse applications of nuclear science in the past, present, and future. Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the museum is ideally located for atomic tourism to Santa Fe and Los Alamos as well.

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