A person's shadow on bank steps in Hiroshima, Japan, (click here) which was created during the 1945 nuclear blast.
Vaporized. There is nothing to be proud of and survival is not something we openly sought, it was a defense of the country we called home.
If nothing else, know this, the USA was not ended. After the first nuclear detonation to the beginning of the attacks on Japan to end a war cast upon the USA was a matter of weeks. The ideas of nuclear supremacy was not being sought by the scientists in the country, the Nazis were destroying Europe. The USA was very reluctant to go to war, even with the pleadings of strong allies such as Winston Churchill.
But, the attack from the Pacific was completely unexpected. Who, in their right minds would have conceived of Kamikaze pilots? What kind of enemy was this? We were astounded when al-Qaeda carried out such attacks. Seeing young children in Palestine march into crowds or enter a bus in Israel to kill themselves in a misdirected ideology. What KIND OF PEOPLE ARE THESE enemies?
The USA carried out it's attacks and destroyed cities with one blast. Putin is a fool.
On 16 July 1945, (click here) U.S. scientists working on the Manhattan Project successfully detonated the first-ever nuclear explosion in the ‘Trinity’ test at Alamogordo, New Mexico. With World War II still dragging on in the Pacific, preparations moved forward to use nuclear bombs against Japan.
On 6 August 1945, at 08:15, the first bomb was dropped on the centre of Hiroshima. ‘Little Boy’ was a gun-type fission bomb, using a conventional explosive charge to fire one sub-critical mass of uranium into another. This kind of device had never been tested before, but the scientists were confident it would work.
And it did. The bomb had an explosive yield of around 13 kilotons. At the moment of detonation, a fireball was generated that raised temperatures to 4,000 degrees Celsius, turning Hiroshima – where many buildings were made of wood and paper - into an inferno. The blast created shock waves faster than the speed of sound. This and the radiation immediately killed everything within one kilometre of the hypocentre.
After the blast, those who approached ground zero searching for the missing were exposed to radiation. Black rain, containing large amounts of radioactive fallout, caused widespread contamination. Estimates of casualties vary greatly. A more conservative estimate by the atomic archive lists 66,000 people killed immediately and a total death toll of 135,000, while the U.S.-Japanese Radiation Effects Research Foundation indicates a range of 90,000 to 166,000 deaths within the first four months....
