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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.
In August of 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These bombs were intended to cause Japan to surrender to the allied forces and to bring about the end of WWII. As a result of direct exposure to these bombs, over 200,000 people died.ifferent types of bombs were used on the two cities. The bomb used on Hiroshima, a uranium bomb, was nicknamed Little Boy. It measured 120 inches in length, 28 inches in diameter, and weighed 9,000 pounds. The Nagasaki bomb, nicknamed Fat Man, was a plutonium bomb.