STATISTICS ABOUT HIROSHIMA
• The prewar population of Hiroshima was 350,000 people
• 80,000 people died immediately or within hours of the bomb being dropped
• 140,000–150,000 people died within the next five years as a result of pika don
• The bomb dropped on Hiroshima had the strength of 20,000 tons of TNT
• The nuclear warheads in America, as of 2014, have the strength of 455,000 tons of TNT
All statistics above were obtained from the following resources:
“50 Facts about Nuclear Weapons Today,” www.Brookings.edu (2014)
“Army Press Notes,” Harry S. Truman Library, Box 4 (1945)
“Surviving the Atomic Attack on Hiroshima, 1945,” Eyewitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2001)
“Using Atomic Bomb, 1945,” Atomic Heritage, www.atomicheritage.org (2016)