First ever atomic bombing on Hiroshima 70-years ago killed nearly 140,000

#Hiroshima #AtomBomb #Nagasaki #LittleBoy #ShinzoAbe Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan and foreign delegates were among the tens of thousands of people who had gathered in Hiroshima`s Peace Memorial Park to observe a moment of silence at 8:15 am local time – that was the time when the detonation took place as an atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima that turned the western Japanese city into an inferno.
Bells tolled to remember that moment that helped to put an end to World War II but opinions are still divided as to whether the total destruction it caused was really justified.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 6 August 2015.

Hiroshima has been rebuilt and is now a bustling city and its mayor Kazumi Matsui has said that nuclear weapons were an "absolute evil". He has urged the world to put an end to them forever.
To recall history – it was an American B-29 bomber named Enola Gay that dropped an atomic bomb, dubbed "Little Boy", on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. As a result, nearly everything around it was incinerated as the ground level was hit by a wall of heat up to 4,000 degrees Celsius and, that was hot enough to melt steel.
Approximately 140,000 people perished in the attack – some of them did survive the bombing itself but died in the following days, weeks and months due to exposure to severe radiation.
Subsequently, on August 9, the port city of Nagasaki was also attacked with an atomic bomb and nearly 70,000 people were killed in that.
Japan finally surrendered on August 15, 1945 and WW-II ended. (Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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