Never again
From the Manhattan Project National Historical Park: On August 6, 1945 at 8:16 am in Hiroshima (7:16 pm August 5th on the US East Coast), after falling for 43 seconds from the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, the Little Boy atomic bomb detonated 1,968 feet (600 meters) above the city, 550 feet (168 meters) from the Aioi Bridge. One second later the fireball reached maximum size, 900 feet in diameter (274 meters). The mushroom cloud began to form. As temperatures on the ground reached 7,000 degrees Fahrenheit (3871 Celsius), buildings melted and fused together, human and animal tissue vaporized. The blast wave traveled at 984 miles per hour in all directions, demolishing over two-thirds of Hiroshima’s buildings in a massive, expanding firestorm. Eighty thousand people were instantly killed or grievously wounded. Over 100,000 more would die from the bomb’s effects in the coming months. Image Credit: US National Archives & Records Administration The United States of America is the ...
