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The bomb exploded about 500 m. (1,625 ft.) above the ground and directly beneath it (the hypocentre) was a suburb of schools, factories, and private houses. The radius of destruction for reinforced concrete buildings was 750 m. (2,437 ft.), greater than at Hiroshima where the blast caused by the bomb was more vertical.
The bomb dropped on Hiroshima killed as many as 140,000 people, while the one dropped on Nagasaki killed as many as 90,000 people. People continued to die even after the bombings, due to secondary illnesses (for example, cancers) caused by the immense radiation.In both cities, the majority of the dead were civilians.est Answer: About 80,000 people were killed outright in the first blast. This was from a bomb rated at 18 kilotons of TNT. By the end of 1945, injury and radiation brought total deaths to 120,000-140,000.