Hiroshima clock. A charred clock,stopped at 8.15 in the morning,the moment when the atomic bomb devastated Hiroshima,Japan,on 6 August 1945. Dropped by the US Air Force,the 'Little Boy' uranium bomb was the first nuclear bomb used in anger. It exploded 580 metres above the city of Hiroshima with a force of 12,500 tons of TNT. It killed 140,000 people by the end of 1945,and a further 60,000 from wounds or radiation sickness by 1950 | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Brake, Brian |
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