The bombing of hiroshima killed roughly 135 000 people. The little boy bomb was the equivalent of 15 000 tons of tnt and decimated 70 of the buildings in the city. It was a compact city which meant that the bomb destroyed nearly all of it.
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Three days after the united states dropped an atomic bomb on hiroshima a second atomic bomb was dropped on nagasaki on august 9 a 21 kiloton plutonium device known as fat man on the day of the bombing an estimated 263 000 were in nagasaki including 240 000 japanese residents 9 000 japanese soldiers and 400 prisoners of war. After being selected in april 1945 hiroshima was spared conventional bombing to serve as a pristine target where the effects of a nuclear bomb on an undamaged city could be observed. The general effects of the atomic bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki a us air force film.
Attack on nagasaki which occurred three days after the hiroshima bombing immediately killed an estimated 40 000 people via history while 60 000 to 80 000 more died in first few months. According to columbia university s center for nuclear studies between 90 000 and 166 000 people perished in hiroshima within the first few months of the nuclear strike. The first nuclear fission bomb used in warfare not only destroyed a city claiming some 70 000 lives but also created a new kind of minerals still found in the sands of hiroshima.
The blast packed a destructive force equivalent to about 15 kilotons of tnt. At 8 15 in the morning on august 6 the uranium based atomic bomb little boy was used on hiroshima home of approximately 320 000 people. Bombers carried out surprise atomic bomb attacks on the cities of hiroshima and nagasaki.
Three weeks later u s. As japan marks 74th anniversary of world s first nuclear bomb attack we examine the events that shaped history. The us nuclear attack that changed history.
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.
