We're used to see atomic bombs images. From afar, they even look beautiful. But when one explodes near you, that immaculate light will burn your skin and make you bleed spontaneously. 65 years ago today, this is how that felt.From Gizmodo:
On August 6, 1945, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay took off from the North Field airbase on Tinian, in the West Pacific. At 8:15, 509th Composite Group commander Colonel Paul Tibbets arrived to the destination: Hiroshima. 30 minutes before that, 2nd Lieutenant Morri Jeppson had removed all safety devices from "Little Boy", an atomic bomb loaded with 130 pounds of uranium-235—the first to be exploded over any population in the planet. 32,333 feet below, this is what that population experienced.
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My Comment: I have been reading a bit on Hiroshima this evening. I found the above post from Gizmodo .... multiple eyewitness accounts of what the survivors experienced that day.
It is the stuff of nightmares .... a vision of Dante's Hell that no living being should have the experience of witnessing .... and living to tell about it. Read it all.
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