On August 6, 1945, at approximately 8:15am, a United States B-29 Superfortress bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb detonated at an altitude of about 1900 feet. According to figures published in 1945, 66,000 people were killed as a direct result of the Hiroshima blast, and 69,000 were injured to varying degrees. Later estimates put the deaths as high as 140,000 people.
The effect of the explosion was blinding light, accompanied by radiant heat from the fireball. The Hiroshima fireball was 1,200 feet (370 m) in diameter, with a surface temperature of 10,000 °F (6,000 °C), about the same temperature as at the surface of the sun. Near ground zero, everything flammable burst into flame. Simultaneous fires were started throughout the blast-damaged area by fireball heat and by overturned stoves and furnaces, electrical shorts, etc. Twenty minutes after the detonation, these fires had merged into a firestorm, pulling in surface air from all directions to feed an inferno which consumed everything flammable.
Colonel Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, waving from its cockpit.
Trump posted this AI image last night on his Truth Social platform. The most common response is “stolen valor!” Trump never served in the military, although he was sent to a military reform school as a teenager. In fact, he never served a day in any public service position until he was elected president. Well, if AI can come up with that, it can come up with response images, too. Here are a few of them.
May 3, 1829 was the premiere of William Tell by Rossini. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIbYCOiETx0
