The atomic bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945 killed tens of thousands and flattened the Japanese city in an instant.
FILE PHOTO: Smoke billows 20,000 feet after an atomic bomb codenamed"Little Boy" exploded after being dropped by a U.S. Army Air Force B-29 bomber named Enola Gay over Hiroshima, Japan August 6, 1945. U.S. Army Air Forces/Library of Congress/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
The concept was simple: driving together enough uranium or plutonium at high enough speeds would create a “critical mass” so quickly that it would start an uncontrolled, nearly instantaneous chain reaction of neutrons knocking apart atomic nuclei. About one square mile of Hiroshima was flattened, crushed by the hammer blow of Little Boy detonating about 580 metres overhead. Nearly everyone in that area died instantly. Farther away, the bomb’s heat ignited buildings and people, and deadly radiation bloomed.
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