US bomber plane Enola Gay has dropped "Little Boy", the American atomic bomb, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It explodes with force equal to 15 kilotons of TNT.
The atom bomb detonates 1968 feet above Hiroshima. In less than one second, a 900 foot wide fireball blasts the centre of the city, vaporising hundreds of people without trace, & killing thousands more in seconds.
Hiroshima bomb sends out a blast wave of light & heat that travels at 2 miles per second, evaporating human bodies. Some of the dead leave shadows burned into the ground, their surroundings bleached white by atomic fire.
Mushroom cloud from the Hiroshima bomb & ensuing firestorm reaches 25,000 feet into the air. The light from the nuclear blast is briefly 10 times brighter than the sun. Blast wave rocks city & shakes the departing Enola Gay, now 10 miles away, like a burst of anti-aircraft fire.
Perhaps 70,000 people have died instantly in the nuclear blast at Hiroshima; 100,000 more are gravely injured by burns, collapsing buildings & radiation.
Nuclear blast destroys 62,000 of Hiroshima's 90,000 buildings. Unlike cities like Tokyo, Hiroshima was not firebombed earlier in war, in order to preserve it as an impressive target for a US atom bomb.
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