On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 in the morning, humanity experiences the darkest page of modern history. The American bomber “Enola Gay”, with pilot Paul Timbets, lets the first atomic bomb fall over Hiroshima. This bomb, code-named “Little Boy”, contained a celestial-235 and exploded at about 600 meters from the ground, releasing destructive energy equivalent to 15 kg TNT. In a matter of seconds, the peaceful city of 300,000 inhabitants turned into a burnt down. The heat and the shock wave disappeared buildings, people and a natural environment within a radius of 2 kilometers, while the fires that followed wrapped whatever was left – a total of more than 11 square kilometers of urban tissue were destroyed. Testimonies speak of a blinding light, a black, deadly mushroom -shaped cloud and panic screams: “My God! What did we do? ” The crew’s co -pilot cried after the explosion. The number of dead is estimated at 70,000- 80,000 people instantly-most of them civilians- […]
Source: News Beast
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