The day the bomb fell on Hiroshima 'flesh fell from bodies and stomachs burst open'
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mirror.co.ukSeventy-five years ago, at 8.15am on August 6 1945, there was a flash above the Japanese city of Hiroshima so intense it blinded those who looked directly at it.
A white-hot blastwave pulsed across the city, obliterating any building within a five-mile radius. Some 80,000 died immediately and the mushroom cloud rained deadly radioactivity on those left.
Another 60,000 died of horrific injuries within days. The bomb was called Little Boy – the world’s first atomic weapon. Three days later another atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki.
Setsuko Nakamura, 13, was arriving for her first day as a codebreaker with the army in Hiroshima on August 6th. Survivors of the world’s only atomic attacks are called “hibakushas” – “person affected
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