Let the First be the Last...

Someone waking up in the morning with the ray of hope... hoping for something good...

Someone investing millions and millions of dollars to kill few million people...
Uranium for "Little Boy" was enriched in calutrons and by gaseous diffusion at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

In order to end the Pacific war... U.S. decided to end the war by splitting uranium and plutonium's nucleus over japan.The United States president Harry S. Truman, with assistance from the United Kingdom and Canada, designed and built the first atomic bombs under what was called the Manhattan Project.
As part of Project Alberta, Commander A. Francis Birch (left) numbers the bomb while physicist Norman Ramsey watches. This is one of the rare photos where the inside of the bomb can be seen.

The "gun" assembly method. When the hollow uranium projectile was driven onto the target spike, a nuclear explosion resulted.

The complete profile of "Little Boy"


Little Boy in his pit on Tinian, before being loaded into Enola Gay's bomb bay. A section of the bomb bay door is visible on the top right.

From North Field, Tinian at 0245 hours followed by two observation b-29...Little boy with 60kg of uranium-235 was thrown away from a B-29 Enola Gay at 0815 hours local, over Hiroshima from 31,600 ft; he exploded 57 seconds later. He was Detonated at an height about 1900ft. Due to crosswind, he missed the aiming point, the Aioi Bridge, by almost 800 feet and detonated directly over Shima Surgical Clinic.

Few minutes passed 8:15...
Huge mushroom cloud... Heat waves... Hazardous Radiation... Dust... People burnt alive... Screams...
An ultimate feast for fire...


Seizo Yamada's ground level photo taken from approximately 7 km northeast of Hiroshima.


Infrastructure damage was estimated at 90 percent of Hiroshima's buildings being either damaged or completely destroyed.

Hiroshima, in the aftermath of the bombing

The radius of total destruction was about 1.6 km (1 mile), with resulting fires across 11.4 km² (4.4 square miles).

The bombs killed as many as 140,000 people in Hiroshima.

The energy released by the bomb was powerful enough to burn through clothing. The dark portions of the garments this victim wore at the time of the blast were emblazoned on to the flesh as scars, while skin underneath the lighter parts (which absorb less energy) was not damaged as badly


Photo of a deadly burnt victim taken in Hiroshima on August 7th, 1945.


Kengo's Watch.
Kengo Futagawa, a 59 year old man was crossing the kannon bridge ( lies 1600 m from the Hypocenter) by his bicycle on his way to do fire prevention work. He jumped into the river, terribly burnt. He returned home, but died on August 22, 1945.


A few weeks after the atomic bomb devastated Hiroshima, grass started growing again and flowers blossomed, giving some hope to the survivors of Hiroshima that the city could be inhabited again.

Citizens of Hiroshima walk by the Hiroshima peace memorial, the closest building to have survived the city's atomic bombing.

The ruins of Hiroshima smolder one day after the atomic bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped Aug. 6, 1945. The skeletal remains of a domed building, center, now called the Atomic Bomb Dome, have been preserved as a memorial