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Essay / Fortunately Hiroshima! - 517
August 6, 1945 around 8:08 a.m., when parents go to work, children run to school, families have breakfast. A bomb named "Little Boy", dropped by the United States, was carried through the air, falling from 13,000 feet high on the unknowing residents of Hiroshima. The bomb exploded at 8:15 a.m., 100 feet from the aiming point. The fireball measured 18,000 feet in diameter, the temperature at the center of the fireball measured 100,000,000 degrees Celsius. Less than a minute after it fell, the bomb exploded above the city. Hiroshima was reduced to pieces. Everyone in the city died instantly, their outlines imprinted on the streets. Those who did not die immediately died within hours. But why LUCKY Hiroshima? When President Truman became president on April 12, he was informed hours later that a new bomb was being developed by atomic scientists. it is an "atomic bomb" (soon called nam...