A world in pictures - Ben Grossman

This picture shows the result of the atomic bomb little boy being dropped on Hiroshima during world war 2. Millions of people died and a huge portion of the city was destroyed.

Just before this picture was taken the residents of Hiroshima were enjoying a normal day. As they went around doing their normal activities, They were unaware that an atomic bomb was speeding towards the city. When the bomb hit most of the people didn't know what hit them. Almost everyone in the blast radius was instantly vaporized. The ones that weren't were thrown back by the shock-wave created by the explosion. As you can tell from the picture the explosion was devastating.

The Japanese didn't know what to do, one of their biggest cities was destroyed in a instant. They couldn't retaliate because they didn't have a weapon of the same destructive power to use. Also the bombing was a huge blow to Japanese moral.