The US bomber "Enola Gay" was launched on the morning of August 6, 1945 in the direction of Hiroshima, loaded with a 4.5 ton bomb. The weapon had a length of three meters and a diameter of almost one meter. At 580 meters he exploded the first bomb 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. The heat spread further about ten kilometers from the burning trees. Almost all the houses were destroyed. The mushroom cloud rose up to 13 kilometers in altitude. 20 minutes later a radioactive shower was unleashed on the ground. For people who were directly affected by the explosion, it literally vaporized the upper layers of the skin, the pressure wave destroyed lungs and tissue. Nuclear radiation caused hair loss and red spots all over his body. People contaminated by radioactivity died in agony for weeks after the bombing from internal bleeding. The atomic bomb "Little Boy" ("Little Boy") almost completely destroyed Hiroshima. The second atomic bomb hit Nagasaki. This girl from Hiroshima was eleven years old when she was contaminated by radiation. He died 20 years later of cancer. This girl from Hiroshima was eleven years old when she was contaminated by radiation. He died 20 years later of cancer. (Source: Shunkichi Kikuchi) To date, many survivors of the atomic bombings develop cancer and die. After the still unsigned unconditional surrender of the Japanese emperor (i.e. surrender: surrender/stand up), the launch of a second nuclear weapon on the city of Kokura was prepared. It is said that for the second bombing there should have been no clear command from the President of the United States. In Kokura there was... half of the paper... just before flying to Hiroshima. (Source: Wikipedia)The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki marked the beginning of the nuclear age. After these terrible events, nuclear weapons were no longer used against humans at the end of World War II. But during the Cold War, which began after the end of World War II and lasted until the beginning of the 1990s, there was an endless arms race - increase in weapons of destruction. At that time the focus was on the United States and its Western allies, the power bloc of the former Soviet Union. Fear among the population was great, and by the beginning of the 1960s the world was short of nuclear war. Even today the danger of life being extinguished on earth through such a horrible weapon is not over. Many states have nuclear bombs because for them that means power. Dictatorships and unjust regimes such as China and North Korea also possess nuclear weapons.