🇺🇸🇯🇵 80 YEARS AGO TODAY: HIROSHIMA
On August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb used in war - “Little Boy” - on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
The blast, equal to 15,000 tons of TNT, obliterated nearly 70% of the city. An estimated 140,000 people died by the end of that year, many within seconds.
Half of those within 1.2 km of ground zero were killed instantly. Near the hypocenter, survival was almost zero.
Thousands more would die in the years that followed - not from fire or debris, but from the slow, invisible damage of radiation: cancer, leukemia, organ failure.
It was the beginning of the nuclear age - and a wound history still hasn’t closed.
Source: @clashreport