What do you know about the first atomic attack in history?

Pars Today – Eighty years ago, the United States used the prohibited atomic weapon, dropping a uranium bomb nicknamed “Little Boy” on the residents of Hiroshima, Japan.

On August 6, 1945, the U.S. used an atomic bomb with an explosive power equivalent to 15,000 tons of TNT against Hiroshima, destroying the city and burning roughly 70 percent of it. According to a Saturday report by Pars Today, in the first few months after this U.S. atomic attack, about 140,000 people in Hiroshima lost their lives. Nearly 50 percent of those within 1.2 kilometers of the blast’s epicenter died that day, and the death rate near the detonation site ranged from 80 to 100 percent.

Many other residents of Hiroshima, in the years that followed, died from radiation exposure, due to causes such as leukemia and other illnesses.

Only three days after the attack on Hiroshima, on August 9, 1945, the city of Nagasaki was also targeted by a U.S. atomic bombing. In these two atomic attacks, more than 220,000 Japanese people lost their lives, and many others struggled for years with the deadly consequences.

The United States remains the first and only country in the world to have used an atomic bomb.

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