At 08:15 of the day August 6, 1945 the clocks of the 350,000 inhabitants of Hiroshima stopped. "Little boy", the atomic bomb which was named for not measuring more than 3 meters, was released by the Enola Gay in the Japanese sky and exploded in the city center, reducing to ashes 90% of buildings and taking thousands of lives with it. Supposed the end of World War II and the beginning of the penalties of this region of Japan.
The people of Hiroshima got up like any other day, they were aware that their country, Japan, was doing Havoc throughout Southeast Asia and consequently, some of the great cities of the country of the rising sun had been bombarded by allied planes. However, and although Hiroshima was a military center important at the time, here never a single bomb fell. This fact was not overlooked for many inhabitants, who believed that the worst was yet to come.
And how right they were, Hiroshima was the alleged city to implement the “Manhattan Project”, in which so much money had been invested by the United States to develop and create the weapon of mass destruction that they now pursue so much. The Americans were careful not to bomb several Japanese cities during the war, basically to study the catastrophic effects of an atomic bomb, say "raw." Hiroshima was one of them.
The bomb exploded 600 meters from the ground, in the center of Hiroshima and its immediate effects were noted within a radius of 10 km. But the worst happened in the radius of 2 km, where literally, wreck with everything there. Only a few buildings, included the dome which became a symbol of the destruction of the war, they were able to remain standing, but in unfortunate conditions.
However the losses most important were the human. Thousands of people lost their lives because of the explosion. What you could not imagine and for what the Japanese people were not prepared was for the terrible effects that would suffer due to uranium pump radiation, who sent thousands of other people to the hospital and from which they would never leave alive again.
The Americans, not happy, they bombarded Nagasaki after making them about Hiroshima, a fact that forced the Japanese empire to announce its withdrawal from World War II, in August 1945.
Today Hiroshima is a kind city, it was rebuilt on its ashes with a force very characteristic of Japanese personality: they worked together, without looking back and with a clear common objective. And they did very well. But they did not want to forget, a fact of such magnitude cannot and should not be a distant memory, they must have thought, and the city today wants to be an example of the inhuman and terrible use of atomic bombs.
