The American bomber “Enola Gay” was launched on the morning of August 6, 1945 towards Hiroshima, loaded with a 4.5 ton bomb. The weapon had a length of three meters and a diameter of almost one meter. In 580 meters, the first bomb exploded on the city of Hiroshima. 43 seconds later, the explosion had destroyed 80 percent of the city center. A fire with an internal temperature of more than one million degrees Celsius broke out explosively. However, the heat caused trees to burn around ten kilometers away. Almost all the houses were destroyed. The mushroom cloud rose to an altitude of 13 kilometers. 20 minutes later, fallout exploded on the field. For those directly hit by the explosion, which literally vaporized the upper layers of skin, the pressure wave shredded lungs and tissue. Nuclear radiation caused hair loss and red spots all over my body. People contaminated by radioactivity died in agony for weeks after the bombing, following internal bleeding. The "Little Boy" atomic bomb destroyed Hiroshima almost completely. The second atomic bomb hit Nagasaki. This girl from Hiroshima was eleven years old when she was contaminated by radiation. She died 20 years later of cancer. This girl from Hiroshima was eleven years old when she was contaminated by radiation. She died 20 years later of cancer. (Source: Shunkichi Kikuchi) To this day, many survivors of the atomic bombings develop cancer and die. After the Japanese emperor's unconditional surrender, as yet unsigned (i.e. capitulation: giving up/rising up), the dropping of a second nuclear weapon on the city of Kokura was prepared. It is said that the US president should not have given a clear order regarding the second bombing. In Kokura, there was... middle of paper... shortly before flying to Hiroshima. (Source: Wikipedia)The Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks mark the beginning of the nuclear age. Since these terrible events at the end of the Second World War, no nuclear weapons have been used against humans. But during the Cold War, which began after the end of World War II and lasted until the early 1990s, there was an arms race. -increase in weapons of destruction. At that time, the United States and its Western allies were focused on the powerful bloc of the former Soviet Union. Fear among the population was great and by the early 1960s the world was short of nuclear war. Likewise, today the danger of life being extinguished on earth by such a horrible weapon is not over. Many states have nuclear bombs because for them it means power. Even dictatorships and unjust regimes like China and North Korea have nuclear weapons..