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August 6th 9 45  first mission of the Shekinah  the last person to have his hands on that weapon was me but devastate your weapon is Unleashed on the city of her within reach the US government's mobilizes teams of scientists and soldiers to a sex direct me from the pages of their reports the science of the first atomic bomb have told by the man who analyze the effects of the Explorer and the survivors who experience them first-hand what happened in the 4 hours after the world's first atomic attack Milan text 1945 Highway 23 years old I was on board the Enola Gay B-29 flying to Japan  1945 August 6th I was 13 years old Olga sex 1945 Highway 7 against the window looking outside August 6th 1945 I was 8 months old baby and this is the dress I was wearing today a day earlier at a military base on tinian island in the Pacific the world's first combat atomic bomb is brought out on the tarmac in preparation for delivery the weapon code name is little boy his conception is the most covert operation ever undertaken by the US Military  thumb holds the power of the Sun the Stars the cosmos but to the crew the bomb looks like something much less Cosmic little boy was 10 big long way more than the biggest pickup truck you can buy Morris Jepson is one of 12 Milligan crew members whose mission is to drop little boy on a yet-to-be identified Japanese. at 2:45 a.m. almost 12 hours after loading the four and a half ton cargo the mission officially begin the Enola Gay take off and head West towards Japan first time I saw little boy was when I climbed in is there a Bombay within the cylinder of armored steel is 140 lb of high uranium  is uranium is divided into a projector and the target the bomb like a big gun bags of gunpowder ignites creating the pressure to send the projectiles flying forward  Mash into the park within seconds critical mass creates a nuclear Chain Reaction releasing of awful amount of destructive energy  vertical t29 are known to crash on takeoff the gunpowder is not yet inside the bomb  now that they're safely off the ground Jepsen and Captain Parsons can put the explosives into play it takes Parsons only 15 minutes to place four bags of cordite gunpowder inside the bomb tail  fat little boy definition system not yet fully armed at a beautiful day Zack Morris Jetsons job  Jesus triple plugs he use that day to arm the little boy bomb dorfin has 3-g do plugs work like a safety lock on a gun preventing it from activating  Jefferson must remove the green plugs swap them out  the red plug complete the weapons electrical circuitry for the spark and ignite the gun they had to handle touchscreen on the little boy bomb so the last person to have hands on that weapon was me  with the last Red plug-in place the bomb is now alive  there a lesson 2 hours before they reach Japan yet no one completely sure that boy will actually work the Hiroshima bomb for them experimental weapon and it was the first test three Japanese cities have been chosen as potential Target for the attack the primary is the port city of Hiroshima located on the Delta of the Oder River  the city of considerable military importance in houses a communication I'm going to send Lee area for troops  but it's far from just a military Target ad Sanford the people here are civilians  since the previous March of 1945 almost every major in Japan has been firebombed yet Hiroshima remains untouched the people of the city worried about that chosen for something especially terrible but as the Enola Gay reaches Japan Hiroshima Chase is still not final it all depends on the weather one of the requirements for the Target is there a test visible from the air weather planes fly ahead to check the conditions over the three selected cities as it happened it is the clear morning after Oshima  50 Cent is now Steel 13 year old should get go sell some or I can feel the sun burning down on there on this hot cloudless morning she runs to join schoolmates in their assignment to clear the streets for fire breaks in case of attack the sky I saw the beautiful server prank translate long tail and Bruce beautiful  and simple my soul something to drop Adecco is the miles from the Enola Gay to Target the bridge running across the river in the center of downtown it can be spotted easily even at 32,000 feet 90 seconds release the Bombadier sets his sights on the target about two miles below and makes careful Last Minute Men Movers will they hit the target will it explode at the preset altitude of 1900 feet over the city hydraulic actuated doors big long doors 12 15 feet long they don't just slowly open a file from like that and fellow crew members have done the math and expect the bomb to detonate at 42 seconds  that's 43 seconds nervous I was monitoring the Tesla thinking and accounting in Miami the crew of the Enola Gay are not the only one counting down at 8:15 on August 6th true hero Takashi Sunday morning left home at 8 a.m. to get to his school  she's looking forward to playing with his friends I was excited this particular mornings for the hide and seek because I was chosen at The X so I would stand steps when you're looking outside well Takashi count thousands of others are outside on route to and school  hair salon Enola Gay flies overhead there's little alarm  it looks nothing like the bomb Squadron most people fear there was the weather what's the sizes for the services that they would run into bomb shelters and be safe from the effects of black people came out doors to look Monroe Wisconsin kill moths I saw the bone in my finger straight sew in this is the only foot ever taken of this atomic explosion  dance documentation of in the sand that changes to coastal city train within moments the mushroom cloud is 10 miles high  it spreads three miles over the city and its more than free 150 thousand inhabitants on the day of the attack States has been in the war for four years and has lost over a hundred thousand men on the Pacific front alone despite losing over Eminem the Japanese continue to fight Spirit fear that if the war goes on Millions more will be lost on both free stuff for the atomic bomb as a potential way to shock him into surrendering this radically new bomb reduces the living breathing downtown of Hiroshima 70000 human beings are dead instantly another 70 injured  what's the highest death toll ever carved by a single weapon  yep Japan the fight  three days later on August 9th the United States drop a second atomic bomb  this time on the city of Nagasaki another 40,000 guy Japan formally surrenders three weeks later the world's bloodiest war it's finally over  the Americans when they think about Hiroshima so then the narrative salt as the mushroom cloud you know what game comes back home since you're the Japanese that's exactly the moment at which the narrative begin just weeks after Japan surrender President Truman order the report on the physical and medical damage inflicted by this new weather  hundreds of scientists engineers and military personnel are recruited for the job alongside occupation forces special investigative teams arrive in Hiroshima working with Japanese scientists built in 10 weeks amidst the ruins Gathering intelligence for him the bums devastating power the analyst breakdown the three major effects of the atomic explosions upon detonation an explosion of energy is released into a small volume of air  just create hearing white hot fire ball that flashes hotter than the surface of the Sun gamma rays and neutrons the breakup of uranium shootout words as deadly and visible radiation  has a fireball stops expanding pressure for blastwave races house at more than 700 miles per hour I'm very report the scientist described the effects of the first stage of the explosion of thermal Flash  The Flash the explosion Radiance traveling at the speed of light hit generate temperatures up to 70 200 degrees Fahrenheit twice the melting point of steel because there's so little film footage of the explosion in Hiroshima look to Atomic test to help them measure the intensity of the Heat Wendy weapon detonation who is the mayor of energy is released in a very short rudepundit very large amount of energy is released simply in the form of light and heat the temperatures get extremely hot perhaps tens of millions of degrees is this somebody to reach down into the center of the Sun and slates in the atmosphere and let it release its energy this energy is instantly lethal when released upon human being if your skin gets eliminated it will simply be turned into carbon and in the case of people who are close enough to get that much light and heat on your body Fleet Feet to exist as a living entity what happened probably even being aware that anything has happened it's impossible to know exactly how many citizens are turned into simple piles of carbon during those first few seconds the US military maps to casualties  within a radius of 800 feet from Ground Zero almost no one survived from exposed directly to the Rays of the fireball seemed to vanish completely what remains are now called Atomic shadow the both people and objects can be found all over the road from  what was that the light from the fireball showing on the ground and it's cause the concrete to actually dark in the life of the fireball was intercepted by railing here and throw this bright area was not supposed to be streamlines of the fireball these Atomic Shadows give scientists a tool to analyze the location of the explosion Henry Cloud people to measure the direction and the height of birth of the nuclear weapons because they could form a plumb-line and from many different direction you can actually get the location of the of the nuclear explosion  from their calculations the scientist discover Enola Gaye hits Incredibly Close to the Target just 550 ft less than 2 football Dwayne from the t-shaped bridge  more than 50% of those killed within a half-mile of 0 died of severe burns go to survive at that distance I barely alive  this man is suffering from the type of burns that played she get goes up amore The Flash Burns over two-thirds of her body a little girl who left the house that morning is unrecognizable to her mother she fine she gecko five days after the blast hair was it like a Dean black football runs to all black  clothing ignited fast roof the houses caught fire The Flash she was intense enough to cause fire like the distance in Michigan close to the heat of the flash a child's notebook newspapers the traditional paper Shoji screens night instantly temperature higher 3200 degrees Fahrenheit fuse even roof tiles into unrecognizable shapes flashes light burn Granite bearing seals fairing iron glass zip lunch box were found one third of a mile from ground schoolgirl if their long tool is about the same age as she gets older she was doing without Hunter assistance with a lunch packed he was destroyed by the bomb at all that's left is bespangled mango mod lunch box ww.w depends on how far away you were from Ground Zero better if you were Japanese or Martian this is not an idiot Bob this was a weapon of mass destruction weapons Terror  less than a mile from 0 is the three-story School building what's up cuz she is playing hide and seek  the bomb Shockwave is about to hit I do not know exactly how happened there but the school building  claps do black people have side effects  I do not know how this whole under the debris. you, anything even my home broke my nose I could not see it Takashi is not alone Sara Towson trapped beneath the rubble that was once downtown Hiroshima the blast wave created by the little boy atomic bomb flattens the sitting in less than 10 seconds 60000 buildings were destroyed or severely damaged by the atomic bomb  this represents over 67% of the city structures a full minute after detonation the force of the Shockwave jolts the crew of the Enola Gay 9 miles away 29000 feet in the air Phil is a flapping attack on the airplane it was the passage of a Shockwave salmon okay that's expected and then a few seconds then another smaller left and my take anybody on the airplane knew what that was  that second hit means the bomb has exploded as plants 19 hundred feet above the city  do understand the dynamic forces of Shockwave blasphemy since I captured with high speed photography  Tron explosion of superheated bubble of air violently pushes out creating a Shockwave  Sabbath shock wave as it expands outward will reach the ground and reflect off the ground creating a combination of a reflective shop and a primary shock and so on the ground you will do much more damage than would otherwise be the case from Individual shop and this is why the attackers was Hiroshima Nagasaki chose to detonate the weapon the couple of thousand feet off the ground Hickory to maximize the destruction to the Target  if little boy has been dropped on the ground beef what absorbs most of its energy but detonation in the Air Force's the Shockwave out flattening just about everything and there is heavy damage for 3 miles in every direction more than half a century later the one devastated city of Hiroshima is completely rebuilt visible scars remain from the bombing but there is one building that stood almost directly under the bomb detonation and it is still here today as a symbol of peace once and exhibit building for local business and government everyone inside was to constantly but the building still stands the Dome was built of copper copper melts at a low temperature light from the fireball was so intense that it basically melted the copper before the shock wave the truck weighs came down vertically blue through that opening and just knocked each floor down as a propagated through building is standing because of the peculiar accident it was almost directly under Ground Zero windows and fly debris become shrapnel as far as 12 miles away from the blast the damage from the explosion is well-documented after u.s. troops arrive but on August 5th the violence of the moment is captured only in the survivors memory meaning of Hiroshima survivors test painted those first hours years later Takashi ton Amore also wrote about them on my back unable to move trap less than a mile Ground Zero Takashi can no longer hear the cries of Health from his classmates  a young Soldier digs him out beneath the rubble but he's not out of danger yet  stores that carry me wings things out of Throne of people who will pay me in heaven Howard dead very alive probably dragging their feet  looking for any tips from blazing Inferno the military analyst studying the destruction report the beginning of a phenomena  in Hiroshima fire spring up simultaneously all over the wide flat Central area of the city people don't seem to understand about this bomb that is main offensive fire it's not as if a bomb started a fire in one corner of the street the fire slowly worked his way up to the other corner Greece Mall planes represent the many fires burning in Hiroshima fires that were set not only by the initial flash but also by the collapse of gas lines and open cooking stove  the fire could be seen by the Enola Gay crew from almost 30,000 feet above the city what's this song really rather horizontal  down on the ground was it spreading does the flickering light switch had to be flames or famous burning they were trying to everything I'm one of the said I look for a while and tell her for a while and then I stuff done and now the comprehension of what's going on down there with settling on people's lives including mine that there was fat destruction and loss of life down below and the whole food everyone's mind was that explosion was of a magnitude that it might affect the more  what you did the Flaming Points of Light below the Enola Gay or about turn into something much worse to see what happens when many small fires are set off simultaneously Associates a group of fire protection Engineers designed the simulation first apology very small and then eventual sarcosine affect the villota's what happened that that Ultima he think of it rather being cylinders as being the city walks of a burning building  in the city you have uneven train I feel to have killed in the different sizes so you have any than air flow we set up the sheet to drywall with dafter than go to represent this idea of having uneven terrain which is going to introduce a bit of a floral into the flow feeding that's a fire from the ground  this creates gale-force drove up to 50 miles per hour at a time over the city you would have had fire World tornadoes appear and disappear the fire one before Texas looks like a double on a hot summer day  whether Flames from candles canisters or city block the fires merge of the Heat and women become more intense in her Oshima the mass Fire Burns for 6 hours and can four and a half square miles  what remains is what survivors called of city of death Jessie my city was great ocean red Firebird parentheses the rivers of Hiroshima are one of the only safe havens for survivors seeking safety from and Flames  despite her serious Burns young she geckos us Amore makes it to a riverbank Home Depot be surrounded by death and suffering just the beating on over and angles practice baby the river is choked with floating Corpses many of those still alive are barely recognizable people self that here artisan and pink it up and the time was seen hanging off big people and I can go  eyewitnesses roll talk about a lot of this tinnitus walking out with her hands in front of them apparently I told the pain of skin that was actually falling off but it goes for made people look like walking drugs one woman described seeing a man walking down the road holding his eyeballs in Sand Springs hard for us to imagine at Joshua the world Wireless it was created by the explosion of this beautiful invention in physics if there is a ****. Frozen in desperate need of help have nowhere to turn and no one to treat them medical facilities in crowded Into the Heart of the City or crippled wiped out by the explosion impact of the otamatone normal fabric of life in Hiroshima is shattered before the attack Durham 200 doctors in the city 90% are killed or injured that day this scale of Destruction is so annoying Snapchat the tens of thousands of dead and incinerated bodies the Holland holsteins freshman running back to function just House of people dying crazy on the trailer flexistretcher to help them lb areas 45 Haas only three were usable but more than the city's infrastructure is wiped out when you destroy us you're destroying the intricate web of Social and personal connections one of the for the survivors once the Two Worlds had confirmed where they were left with their parents trying to decide world's most people who have managed to survive the attack are suddenly struck down with a mysterious illness from called these apps  thousands of survivors report vomiting purple sores and hair loss in the days and weeks after the the US government knows it's radiation poisoning but they don't fully understand it I only studies that have been done prior to that time I've been telling rabbits English almost no register about whole body exposure of human being two years after the bomb was dropped the US government create the atomic bomb casualty Commission DC Shoes  their mission is not to treat the survivors But You observe and to see what radiation exposure would do to their health and mortality attorney Motel condo was one of their subject less than a mile from Ground Zero Coco was an 8 month old baby in her mother's arms when the bomb next clothing area where was it located yes this is the place hey Christine I was just my mother and house is cold Coco Coco survive the blast in the fire what was not known was the effect radiation have on her body in the first milliseconds of little boy detonation electromagnetic energy in the form of gamma rays neutrons and x-rays sprays up to two miles in every direction  the waves and tiny particles in big odorless bombards anyone exposed with cell damaging energy for almost all within a half mile raise our death Minneapolis private care around with them the fear that the radiation is like a put a time bomb in the body the afflictions comforting fear that they would come leukemia cancer but they would give birth to children with the Lexington years after her house collapse around her Coco became part of the ABC study how the radiation affect the human body  Big Spring Texas Children  for a decade Coco Sims 1 king of every year being examined thousands of survivors are still participating in what is now one of the longest-running Medical cities in the world dabc see now the radiation effects Research Foundation has collected data over 120,000 atomic bomb survivors  today with the collaboration of the Japanese government information continues to shed light on how radiation affects the human body the reason we as mammals die from radiation exposure is simply because cells have DNA damage chromosome damage and they stop the Vinings when cells stop dividing immune system cells internal organs shut down fetuses stop developing  the process of life packet understanding comes at a cost for survivors like Coco she hit puberty the examinations at the ABC sing become difficult  passport to Cocoa is ushered from her private exam room to an auditorium  doctor told me to go out to sea but this right with her epilepsy how many people inside so I could guess all this must be the doctor's name Lightning McQueen did Nexus 6p take off right now your body itch from time for dessert. Beauty Baby 44 naked body to the people frozen deep inside for long time is quite reasonable that same I feel they were being treated like anything but because they have been so faithful and loyal and contributing their legacy is that their information is going to benefit all of mankind Coco has never been able to have children for possible results of radiation exposure  but her if the patient in the study is part of a different sort of Legacy the ABC data is used to help treat others explode radiation like the victims of Chernobyl hey Jay it's useful for hunting today scientific details about radiation studies are freely shared internationally but there are other aspects of the atomic bombing of fortunate that are not easy to uncover secrecy has always in shrouded the world of atomic science from the can captain of the bomb even to today  for years the US government confiscated and suppress nearly all images and first accounts of the bombing of Hiroshima and its immediate aftermath  it wasn't until 1950 two seven years after the bomb sell that these images the only photos taken on the day of the bombing were made millipede sentence for aware that public opinion back home trying to some degree against bombing if they were exposed to images that are very painful to see of what exactly did Center, done to human body run alive while the military didn't want to share details of the aftermath with the public they did want to understand the power of these new weapons and they use film footage of later Atomic test to do it the footage showed not only affects of the heat ray and wave on different materials and structures but by settling the explosion itself panelists could measure a weapon distance and yield many of these films were placed under lock and key and to this day remain classified the military analyst to witness the enormous scale and effects of atomic weapons close their report with the Grim observation  there is no one force parking for peaceful than the site of the the four oceans these weapons they are so indiscriminate so you're so murderous you have to ultimately conclude that these are weapons of mass genocide vitamins 1950 the US military was in a global nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union in the testing nuclear weapon up for once what times more powerful than those used on Japan Burleson Texas all the nuclear weapons in New Orleans that were always today is difficult to see evidence of the ones devastated Hiroshima the museums and monuments of Chief Park are a reminder of what happened on August 6th 1945 since I Dismount are the remains of thousands body is not recognizable and never claim but the most powerful reminders come from those who survive  the only one who can tell us what it's like to live through and it hurting big toe beach pictures I think the quickest way to Adventure in India baby to forget  I hope I'm able to give my children a better word than a hydrocele vitamin store the lessons we have learned  FedEx my vagina

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