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“Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence,” (“Burchett”). And it had; the majority of the structures had been destroyed and everything blackened. The atomic bomb’s effects were more destructive and affected more area than any bomb had ever before. The damage to the structures of Hiroshima, Japan after the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945, was caused by three sources: the flash burn, shock wave/airblast, and the firestorm.
The first impact on the buildings and structures of Hiroshima was the flash burn.
The flash burn was “a very appreciable fraction of the [atomic bomb’s] energy liberated goes into radiant heat and light,” (“The Atomic Chap

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