The thermal radiation from an atomic bomb blast travels in a straight line. In nagasaki 40 000 people vanished in just one second. In hiroshima between 60 000 and 80 000 people were killed literally incinerated into nothing in a moment s time.
The united states detonated two nuclear weapons over the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki on august 6 and 9 1945 respectively with the consent of the united kingdom as required by the quebec agreement the two bombings killed between 129 000 and 226 000 people most of whom were civilians and remain the only uses of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. Such was the ferocity of the blast eerie shadows of incinerated humans were. At 8 15 local time this morning a bell tolled in hiroshima to mark the exact moment the devastating bomb was dropped.
70 years of the atomic bomb the attacks which killed more than 100 000 instantly ushered in two competing races one to amass stockpiles of nuclear warheads the other to. The shadow of a person with a walking stick seen after the hiroshima bombings. Here are some other sights from the site right after the nuclear attack.
In the 1970s as the sumitomo hiroshima bank was torn down the steps were preserved and donated to the hiroshima peace museum where it can be viewed till date. The main event on the morning of august 6th 1945 at approximately 8 15 am japanese time the first ever nuclear bomb used in warfare little boy came crashing down on. The after effects of the atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima are still visible in some form or the other in the generations of people that lived the traumatic times.
When little boy detonated 1 900 feet above the city a flash of brilliant boiling light scorched all that it touched. The nuclear shadows of hiroshima universal history archive getty images the shadow of the hiroshima man seated on the sumitomo bank steps. The intense heat of the atomic explosion caused what are called nuclear shadows.
The shadows at hiroshima are a haunting reminder of the brutality of the bombing that occurred on august 6 1945 a us b 29 bomber detonated a nuclear weapon on the city of hiroshima destroying much of the architecture and killing more than 70 000 people instantly miraculously there were some survivors. Human shadow etched in stone japanese.
