A key text is Jeff Nuttall's book Bomb Culture ( 1968 ), which traced this pervasive theme in popular culture back to Hiroshima.

* 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb " Little Boy " is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay.

I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima.

() is a Japanese automotive manufacturer based in Fuchū, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.

The MX-5, also known as Miata () in North America and Eunos Roadster in Japan, is a lightweight two-seater roadster, of front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout, built by Mazda in Hiroshima, Japan.

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.

" Historians Hill and Yukiko have pointed out that attempts to minimize the importance of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is revisionist history.

In 1995, after the Beatles released Lennon's " Free as a Bird " and " Real Love " with demos provided by Ono, McCartney and his family collaborated with her and Sean Lennon to create the song " Hiroshima Sky is Always Blue ", which commemorates the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of that Japanese city.

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.

* Hiroshima, Japan is founded.

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.

He credits James Goodby ( of the Brookings Institution ) with tracing what he considers the earliest known English-language use soon after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ( although it is not quite verbatim ): a communique from a 15 November 1945, meeting of Harry Truman, Clement Attlee and Mackenzie King ( probably drafted by Vannevar Bush – or so Bush claimed in 1970 ) referred to " weapons adaptable to mass destruction ".

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 ).

Most of the nation's industry is located along the belt running from Tokyo along Honshu's southern coastal cities, including Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya, Kobe, and Hiroshima, part of the Taiheiyo Belt.

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.

This is equivalent to 1, 400 times the combined power of the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 10 times the combined power of all the conventional explosives used in WWII, or one quarter of the estimated yield of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa.

On the nuclear attacks on Japan in WWII, he adhered to the view that " there was even less sign of a crack in Japan's determination to fight to the end with that of Nazi Germany, which is why nuclear arms were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to ensure a rapid Japanese surrender ", though believed there was an ancillary political, non-military reason for the bombings: " perhaps the thought that it would prevent America's ally the USSR from establishing a claim to a major part in Japan's defeat was not absent from the minds of the US government either.

While many world leaders have visited Hiroshima over the years, she is the highest-ever sitting U. S. official to pay her respects.

Okonomiyaki is mainly associated with Kansai or Hiroshima areas of Japan, but is widely available throughout the country.

Tokyo okonomiyaki is usually smaller than a Hiroshima or Kansai okonomiyaki.

* In Fuchū, Hiroshima, okonomiyaki is made of ground meat instead of bacon.

A better world may yet come out of Hiroshima.

Subsequently, he became Director of Research for the National Coal Board in the UK, but following his experiences of the after-effects of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings, he turned to biology, as did his friend Leó Szilárd and many other physicists of that time, to better understand the nature of violence.

After being selected in April 1945, Hiroshima was spared conventional bombing to serve as a pristine target, where the effects of a nuclear bomb on an undamaged city could be observed.

* Models of Hiroshima city center before and after In the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

* August 6 – In Hiroshima, tens of thousands mark the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city.

On August 6, 1945, a uranium gun-type device ( code name " Little Boy ") was detonated over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

By executive order of President Harry S. Truman, the U. S. employed the uranium-type nuclear weapon code named " Little Boy " on the city of Hiroshima on Monday, August 6, 1945, followed three days later by the detonation of the plutonium-type weapon code named " Fat Man " over the city of Nagasaki on August 9.

Within the first two to four months after the bombings, acute effects killed 90, 000 – 166, 000 people in Hiroshima and 60, 000 – 80, 000 in Nagasaki, with roughly half of the deaths in each city occurring in the first 24 hours.

Some examples include the Allies ' destruction of civilian Axis targets during World War II, such as the firebombing of the German city of Dresden and the use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ; and the mass killing of Biharies by Kader Siddique and Mukti Bahini before or after victory of Bangladesh Liberation War in Bangladesh between 1971 and 1972.

Approximately of the city were destroyed and some 100, 000 people are estimated to have died in the resulting firestorm, more immediate deaths than either of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Japanese runner Yoshinori Sakai was born in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, the day the nuclear weapon Little Boy destroyed that city.

* Hiroshima, a city in Japan

A uranium bomb, Little Boy, was dropped on the Japanese city Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, followed three days later by the plutonium-based Fat Man on Nagasaki.

In mapping the effects of an atomic bomb, such as on the city of Hiroshima here, concentric circles are drawn centered on the point below the detonation and numbered at consecutive distances.

The Oxford English Dictionary, citing the use of the term in a 1946 New York Times report on the destroyed city of Hiroshima, defines ground zero as " that part of the ground situated immediately under an exploding bomb, especially an atomic one.

Approximately 16 square miles ( 41 km² ) of the city were destroyed and some 100, 000 people are estimated to have died in the resulting firestorm, more than the immediate deaths of either the Hiroshima or Nagasaki, Japan atomic bombings.

Ypres these days has the title of " city of peace " and maintains a close friendship with another town on which war had a profound impact: Hiroshima.

The city governments of Ypres and Hiroshima advocate that cities should never be targets again and campaign for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

The capital is the city of Hiroshima.

The bomb, code-named Little Boy, was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

File: A-Bomb Dome close-up. jpg | Citizens of the city pass by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial on their way to a memorial ceremony on August 6, 2004

The centerpiece of the exhibit was the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the A-bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

On August 6, 1945, a uranium-based weapon, " Little Boy ," was detonated above the Japanese city of Hiroshima.