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Hypocenter

Hypocenter   Carried to Hiroshima from Tinian Island by the Enora Gay, a U.S. Army B-29 bomber, the first atomic bomb used in the history of humankind exploded approximately 600 meters above this...

Hypocenter

 

Carried to Hiroshima from Tinian Island by the Enora Gay, a U.S. Army B-29 bomber, the first atomic bomb used in the history of humankind exploded approximately 600 meters above this spot.  The city below was hit by heat rays of approximately 3,000 to 4,000 °C along with a blast wind and radiation.  Most people in the area lost their lives instantly.  The time was 8:15 a.m., August 6, 1945.  (View of devastation looking north from hypocenter, November 1945.  Photograph by U.S. Army)

 

 

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Bryan Arnold

 

@nanowhiskers

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