Data from a global network of sensors indicated that the disintegration of the Russia fireball unleashed nearly 500 kilotons of energy, more than 30 times the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
Taniguchi was just 8 years old and just a mile and a quarter from ground zero when the atom bomb hit Hiroshima.
Furthermore, follow-up of women exposed to the atomic bomb at Hiroshima showed that exposure during adolescence (during breast development) carried a much higher risk of breast cancer than exposure later in life.
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" Or, to quote an example from Mr. Rosengren: "Two days after a U.S. B-29 dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Hank collected three hits, including two doubles, in the first game of a twin bill at Briggs Stadium against the Red Sox.
That is equivalent to having been about three-quarters of a kilometre from the epicentre of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
The plutonium bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9th 1945, three days after a uranium bomb had destroyed Hiroshima.
The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 was 12-15 kilotons.
As they waited to disembark in India, Mr Davies heard on the radio that an atom bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima in Japan.
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By comparison, the nuclear bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 released an estimated 15 kilotons of energy.
What did happen was that the Enola Gay, an American B-29 bomber, dropped a uranium-based atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
The U.S. space agency, NASA, said the meteor released nearly 500 kilotons of energy, about 33 times more than the nuclear bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.
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The first two days of the event will take place in Hiroshima, where participants will have the opportunity to visit the peace museum and to talk to atomic bomb survivors, and the other days in Etajima, an island about 30 minutes from Hiroshima.
During active service, Wyllie visited Hiroshima and saw for himself the impact of the atomic bomb.
"I hope Hiroshima will take a lead on this because of our own experience with the atomic bomb, " he said.
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