August 6, 1945

An American B-29, the Enola Gay, drops the atomic bomb known as “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, Japan.

Before	After

 

War is Hell.

According to the U.S. Department of Energy the immediate effects of the blast killed approximately 70,000 people in Hiroshima.^[44] Estimates of total deaths by the end of 1945 from burns, radiation and related disease, the effects of which were aggravated by lack of medical resources, range from 90,000 to 166,000.^[1][45] Some estimates state up to 200,000 had died by 1950, due to cancer and other long-term effects.^[3][6][46] Another study states that from 1950 to 2000, 46% of leukemia deaths and 11% of solid cancer deaths among bomb survivors were due to radiation from the bombs, the statistical excess being estimated to 94 leukemia and 848 solid cancers.^[47] At least eleven known prisoners of war died from the bombing.