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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.
1 The bomb dropped on Nagasaki was made from plutonium, which was even more powerful than uranium. 2  It is thought that at least 135,000 people died from the Hiroshima explosion and another 70,000 in Nagasaki.3  Many of these people were civilians including women and children.he First Atomic Bomb. On July 16, 1945 the first atomic bomb was exploded in the New Mexico desert. The explosion was massive and the equivalent to 18,000 tons of TNT. Scientists figured that the temperature at the center of the explosion was three times hotter than at the center of the sun.