Those who survived the initial blast were hit with a powerful shockwave that leveled nearly every structure within a mile of the impact. As many as 70,000 people were killed instantly. On the ground, the city was alive with morning activity when the bomb detonated in a blinding explosion.
locally, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb “Little Boy” on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On August 6, 1945, at approximately 8:15 a.m. National Archives, Records of the Office of War Information “Photograph of the Atomic Cloud Rising Over Nagasaki, Japan,” August 9, 1945
