The nose of the Enola Gay rises ten feet as the 9,700 pound Little Boy bomb is released at 31,060 feet. Of those who survived the detonation and through the rest of the day, death rates increased with proximity to the hypocenter and severity of injury. 0915:15 (8:15:15 Hiroshima time): The bomb bay doors snap open, and Little Boy drops clear of its restraining hook. Paul Tibbets’s motherwas loaded late in the afternoon of August 5, 1945, and the following morning took off from Tinian. Approaching the hypocenter, 80 to100% died. The Boeing B-29 Superfortessnamed Enola Gay, after pilot Lt. Roughly 50% of those within 1.2 kilometers of the hypocenter are estimated to have died that day. Estimates place the number of dead by the end of December 1945, when the acute effects of radiation poisoning had largely subsided, at roughly 140,000. The exact number of deaths from the atomic bombing is still unknown. A few foreign students from China and Southeast Asia and U.S. Some of the latter were conscripted laborers. This figure includes residents, military personnel, people from surrounding towns and villages mobilized to demolish buildings in the city, and people from Japan's colonies: Korea, Taiwan, and the Chinese continent. The hundreds of fires, ignited by the thermal pulse, combined to produce a firestorm that had. Over two-thirds of Hiroshimas buildings were demolished. The blast wave shattered windows for a distance of ten miles and was felt as far away as 37 miles. The population of Hiroshima when the bomb was dropped was approximately 350,000. On August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay took off from Tinian Island, carrying the first atomic bomb, code-named Little Boy. In less than one second, the fireball had expanded to 900 feet.
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