A.C. Gilbert Company
Organization
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Atomic Bomb Board Game
Collection — MSSP Game CC-0001
Identifier: MSSP 10105
Scope and Contents
American-made manual dexterity board game depicting the atomic bombing of Japan in 1945. The object of the game is to maneuver two plastic capsules containing a weighted metal ball into holes in a map of Japan representing Hisoshima and Nagasaki, the two cities destroyed by atomic bombs dropped by the United States. Tokyo is also labeled on the map without any corresponding target hole. The black and yellow cardboard surface of the game features a map of Japan and an oversized bomb labeled...
Dates:
c. 1946