TodayInHistory On this day in 1945, the United States dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing 140,000 people. READ:
At 8:15 a.m., the pilot released Little Boy, a uranium bomb with a destructive force equivalent to 16 kilotons of TNT.
The air pressure suddenly dropped, crushing those on the ground, and an ominous mushroom cloud rose, towering 16 kilometers above the city. Countless hundreds never emerged, pushed under the surface by the mass of desperate humanity; their charred bodies left bobbing in the brackish water. Gums bled, teeth fell out, hair came off in clumps; there were cancers, premature births, malformed babies and sudden deaths.
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