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39th year  -  N° 347                 Thursday, 12 December 2024         Antwerpen		
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Monday 6th of August 1945

79 years ago Little Boy Had a Big Impact



US Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber 'Enola Gay' drops a bomb named 'Little Boy' containing about 64 kg uranium-235 in Shima Hospital, Hiroshima, Chūgoku, Japan.

The radius of total destruction was about 1,6 km with resulting fires across 11 square km. Some 70.000–80.000 people or around 30% of the population of Hiroshima were killed by the blast and resultant firestorm and another 70.000 were injured.


More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki