Remembering Hiroshima

August 6, 1945

A wristwatch that recorded the exact time of the blast

8:15 am

The first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.

The Atomic Bomb exploded 2,000 feet above the city.

The bomb destroyed the entire city.

At Ground Zero the wind velocity was 980 miles an hour

Ground Zero heated to 3,871 Degrees

at the time of impact

Even a mile away, the wind velocity was 190 miles an hour.

Everything within a

1 mile radius from the center of the blast was

demolished.

Victims Before the Bombing

Victims After the Bombing

Emergency workers treat a young victim.

He died once he got to the hospital.

Victims receiving treatment.

The Blast killed

80,000people

Instantly

140,000 were dead by December4 months after the Blast

Aerial View of Hiroshima

Before the Bomb

After the Bomb

Aerial View of Hiroshima

One of the crowded cemeteries of Hiroshima.

A replica of Little BoyThe atomic bomb that dropped on Hiroshima

“Only a Japanese surrender will stop us” President Harry Truman

The Atomic Bomb DomeA memorial at the site

of the atomic explosion.

Lanterns float on a river on the anniversary of the

atomic blast every year.