Forty-three seconds after releasing the bomb, the pilot was alerted to the blast by radioactivity tingling in his teeth and the metallic taste from electrolysis on his tongue. Ten and a half miles away, many thousands had already vanished. A massive firestorm would grip the city within minutes.
Read a 1995 retrospective on this event here. Read the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Wikipedia entry with its host of external links here.
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