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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.
Destruction from the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945. More than 200,000 people died in the combined Hiroshima and Nagasaki blasts. Japan surrendered unconditionally after the Aug. 9 bomb on Nagasaki to end World War II.