Estimates of the energy of the blast range from 5 to as high as 30 megatons of TNT ( 21 – 130 PJ ), with the most likely — roughly equal to the United States ' Castle Bravo thermonuclear bomb tested on March 1, 1954 ; about 1, 000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan ; and about one-third the power of the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated.

* For the Battle of Sekigahara, Fukushima Masanori entered Hiroshima Castle in 1600, and then Mihara Castle has been under controlled as the branch castle of Hiroshima castle.

An epitaph to Tamiki Hara was originally built by his friends at the site of Hiroshima Castle.

Mōri Terumoto ( 毛利 輝元, January 22, 1553 – April 27, 1625 ), son of Mōri Takamoto and grandson and successor of the great warlord Mōri Motonari, fought against Toyotomi Hideyoshi but was eventually overcome, participated in the Kyūshū campaign ( 1587 ) on Hideyoshi's side and built Hiroshima Castle, thus essentially founding Hiroshima.

In terms of TNT tonnage equivalence, Castle Bravo was about 1, 000 times more powerful than each of the atomic bombs which were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.

In 1619, when the domain of Fukushima Masanori was seized, Tadaharu received Hiroshima Castle, which had belonged to Masanori.

Hiroshima Castle, on the opposite end of the spectrum, was destroyed in the atomic bombing, and was rebuilt in 1958 as a museum.

The remains of Sue Harukata were transported back to the mainland and positively identified at Sakurao Castle before being accorded a funeral and burial in the cemetery of a nearby Buddhist temple in present-day Hatsukaichi city, Hiroshima Prefecture.

* Hiroshima Castle tourist brochure obtained at the castle.

* Hiroshima Castle official site ( note: students from abroad studying in Japan, show your Japanese school ID, then entrance fee will be free )

* Junji Akechi, " New theory offered for collapse of Hiroshima Castle tower in the bombing " Chugoku Shimbun Website

The was a noble samurai family in feudal Japan which controlled the han ( fief ) of Hiroshima centered around Hiroshima Castle for much of the Edo period.

For a list of the other Asano family lords of Hiroshima, see Hiroshima Castle.

The first 29 cantos of Aniara had previously been published in Martinson's collection Cikada ( 1953 ), under the title Sången om Doris och Mima ( The Song of Doris and Mima ), relating the departure from Earth, the accidental near-collision with an asteroid ( incidentally named Hondo, another name for the main Japanese isle where Hiroshima is situated ) and ejection from the solar system, the first few years of increasing despair and distractions of the passengers, until news is received of the destruction of their home port ( and perhaps of Earth ).

On August 30, he received photographic evidence and a telegraph description of the conditions in Hiroshima.

The film received 17 awards including the Grand Prize at the Montreal World Film Festival, the Special Jury Award for Humour at the Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films, the Golden Space Needle for Best Short at the Seattle International Film Festival, Best Animated Film at the Tampere Film Festival, the Silver Plaque for Animation at the Chicago International Film Festival, the Hiroshima Prize at the Hiroshima International Animation Festival, the FIPRESCI International Film Critics ' Prize at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival and a Genie Award for Best Animated Short.

In 1977, he left the agency and received 3. 5 million yen in severance pay, which he used to run for the Diet in Hiroshima.

After the bombing of Hiroshima, which Cate may have been in some way involved with, he received a letter from Harry S. Truman which provided a lengthy justification for the dropping of the first atomic bombs ever to be used in warfare, Little Boy and Fat Man.

Later that year, Indianapolis received orders to carry parts and nuclear material to be used in the atomic bombs which were soon to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Tinian.

My train arrived in Hiroshima at the awful hour of 4:45 a.m..

* 1945 – The US Navy cruiser arrives at Tinian with parts of the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

India won the gold medal and has also won gold at the following six Asian Games in Hiroshima in 1994, Bangkok in 1998, Busan in 2002, Doha in 2006 and Guangzhou in 2010.

India won the gold medal and has since won gold at the following three Asian Games in Hiroshima in 1994, Bangkok in 1998, Busan in 2002, and in Doha 2006.

It was less powerful than " Fat Man ", which was dropped on Nagasaki ( 21 – 23 kt ). However, the damage and the number of victims at Hiroshima were much higher, as Hiroshima was on flat terrain, while the hypocenter of Nagasaki lay in a small valley.

Most knowledge about nuclear weapon urban blast destruction originates from studies of Little Boy at Hiroshima.

The fission or " nuclear " chain-reaction, using fission-produced neutrons, is the source of energy for nuclear power plants and fission type nuclear bombs, such as those detonated by the United States in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, at the end of World War II.

Mazda's first Wankel engine, at the Mazda Museum in Hiroshima, Japan

* August 6 – WWII: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima: A United States B-29 Superfortress, the Enola Gay, drops an atomic bomb, codenamed " Little Boy ", on Hiroshima, Japan, at 8: 15 a. m. ( local time ).

* July 10 – Heavy massive rains and a landslide at Kobe and Kure, Hiroshima, Japan, kill at least 371.

Outside, a vivid image is given: the family's silhouettes were permanently burned onto the side of the house ( as occurred at Hiroshima ) when they were vaporized by the nuclear explosion.

He became an increasingly devout Catholic, while at the same time he had been inspired by the shock of Hiroshima and the dawning of the " atomic age ".

The B-29 aircraft that delivered the nuclear weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not lose power due to damage to their electrical or electronic systems.

Typical nuclear weapon yields used during Cold War planning for EMP attacks were in the range of 1 to 10 megatons ( 4. 2 to 42 PJ ) This is roughly 50 to 500 times the sizes of the weapons the United States used in Japan at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

A group of Japanese schoolchildren dedicate their contribution of Thousand origami cranes at the Sadako Sasaki memorial in Hiroshima.

The Manhattan Project, as the American nuclear physics effort was called, culminated in the test explosion of a nuclear device at what is now called the Trinity Site on July 16, 1945, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki just a few weeks later.

The gun-type assembly was not tested before it was detonated at Hiroshima.

Although initial witness reports stated that the resultant fireball was equivalent to the Hiroshima nuclear explosion, scientific analysis places the force of the blast at anywhere from 100-500 tonnes TNT equivalent – around 3 % of Hiroshima's yield.

They noted that although the blast wave was of about the same pressure as that of a high-explosive bomb, the duration of the effect was longer and that brick buildings were collapsed as far as 7, 300 feet at Hiroshima and 8, 500 feet at Nagasaki, while traditional wood houses were about the same, while reinforced-concrete structures suffered structural damage or collapse up to 700 feet at Hiroshima and 2, 000 feet at Nagasaki.

* The domain was divided into Fukuyama Domain and Hiroshima Domain in 1619, and Tadayoshi Asano entered Mihara castle.

, sometimes called was a castle in Hiroshima, Japan which was the home of the daimyō ( feudal lord ) of the Hiroshima han ( fief ).

Mōri Terumoto, one of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's council of Five Elders, established Hiroshima castle in 1589 at the delta of the Otagawa river.

' Beginning in 1591, Mōri governed nine provinces from this castle, including much of what is now Shimane, Yamaguchi, Tottori, Okayama and Hiroshima Prefectures.

When construction on the castle began, Gokamura was renamed Hiroshima, as a more impressive name was called for.

Fukushima Masanori became the lord of Aki and Bingo provinces ( which today comprise Hiroshima prefecture, and of Hiroshima castle ).

For many years, it was believed the castle structure was blown away by the explosion that destroyed Hiroshima, but newly discovered evidence suggests the explosion only destroyed the lower pillars of the castle, and the rest of it collapsed as a result.

< nowiki >*</ nowiki > The years listed are those in which the lord occupied Hiroshima castle, not the years of his life.

An excellent example of a hirajiro or flatlands ( plains ) castle, Hiroshima castle once had three concentric moats in addition to the Otagawa river to the west ( now called the Hongawa ), which provided an additional natural barrier.

A number of secondary castle buildings, towers and turrets once stood, and a Shinto shrine called Hiroshima Gokoku Jinja is located within the innermost moat, having been moved there after 1945.

Nevertheless, their home castle city of Hiroshima was a major port, and they ruled over Aki and Bingo Provinces, their holdings totaling 426, 500 koku.