august 6

Hiroshima August 6th, 1945

At 08:14 and 45 seconds on August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped “Little Boy,” the bomb that destroyed about 90% of the buildings in the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A devastating flash of lightning, the shockwave, lives broken. The devastation and rubble are there, but then… Then the rain and the dust, the real beginning of the horror. Lives are broken by the radioactive fall-out that follows, condemning to death or unspeakable suffering thousands of people, women, men, children, young people, old people who will suffer for years the consequences of hell brought to earth in the…

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