Saturday, September 23, 2023

A 3-year-old Japanese girl was burned by the Nagasaki atomic bomb, and walked around with a bandage on her head on September 29, 1945. She was injured near her destroyed home, about 1.9 kilometers south of the hypocenter of the Nagasaki atomic bomb.

  A 3-year-old Japanese girl was burned by the explosion of the Nagasaki atomic bomb dropped by the U.S. Air Force on August 9, 1945, in Nagasaki, Japan. She walked around with a bandage on her head after being injured near her destroyed home about 1.9 kilometers south of the Nagasaki bomb's hypocenter. A Japanese girl plays in the ruins of the collapsed Nagasaki Shinsei (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Photo #290036_Box 570_RG111SC, https://www.nichimyus.jp/). A U.S. Army Air Force unit inspected, photographed, and documented the city of Nagasaki after it was hit by the atomic bomb.












 

 

 The detonation of the atomic bomb resulted in the appearance of a huge fireball. The fireball was about 100 times brighter than the sun and its center was several million degrees Celsius. The fireball was about 100 times brighter than the sun, and its center was several million degrees Celsius. It released intense heat rays, fierce blasts, and enormous amounts of radiation, and instantly set a wide area on fire, centered on the hypocenter. The heat rays caused the surface temperature of the ground at the hypocenter to reach approximately 3,000 to 4,000 degrees Celsius. The intense heat rays caused severe burns to the survivors, and many people were killed or injured. Fires that broke out immediately after the bombing also caused extensive damage and destruction.

 Damage caused by the Nagasaki atomic bomb (estimated by the end of December 1945)* The estimated population of Nagasaki City at that time was approximately 240,000 (rationed population as of May 31, 1945), of which 73,884 were killed and 74,909 were injured. (Report of the Committee for the Preservation of Atomic Bomb Materials (released in July 1945)) A girl who suffered burns on her head from the Nagasaki atomic bomb was searching and rummaging around in the rubble ground of the ruined Nagasaki City.



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