Examine The Past

        The sun rose gently over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, casting its golden light across a city already marked by the strains of war. Children clutched their satchel s as they walked to school, street vendors began setting out their goods, and women bent over cooking fires, their minds on the day’s chores. At precisely 8:15 a.m., the hum of ordinary life was replaced by a flash brighter than the sun itself, accompanied by a shockwave that cracked the earth and sent a searing wind tearing through streets and homes. In that moment, “Little Boy” introduced the world to a new and terrible reality. The age of the atomic bomb had arrived, and with it a transformation of human warfare and global politics unlike anything before. Atomic bombing of Hiroshima, August 6, 1945 at about 8,15 a.m., overview of the strike and the Little Boy gun assembly bomb, infographic source, Encyclopaedia Britannica. The Bombing of Hiroshima and Its Legacy The bomb detonated roughly 580...