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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1995
Page
7
The account recounts Hiroshima's wartime role and the 80 000 direct deaths from the bomb, plus 60 000 more by year end, with extensive destruction and survivors known as hibakusha. It notes Nagasaki fatalities totaling 70 000 by 1945 and ongoing aftereffects, stating only two atomic bombs were ever used.
The B-29 Enola Gay dropped the Hiroshima uranium bomb Little Boy, a 20 kiloton device that exploded 1,900 feet above the city. Fat Man, a plutonium implosion bomb for Nagasaki, missed its target by over a mile yet leveled much of the city.
At ground zero the blast vaporized bodies and caused firestorms and radioactivity. Within one mile 98 percent fatal, two miles 90 percent fatalities, 3.5 miles severe blast damage with 65 percent fatalities, five miles severe heat and oxygen depletion, six miles severe fire and wind damage with many survivors suffering second and third-degree burns.
In the wake of Japan's surrender, questions about the necessity of dropping the bomb endure. Hirohito's near surrender, potential civilian and American casualties, and ongoing pacifist sentiment frame Tokyo and Washington responses. Hiroshima remains a peace symbol with a burning flame in the Peace Park.
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