Mushroom cloud completely covering Hiroshima City one hour after the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb
Hiroshima
Atomic Bomb was a mushroom cloud taken an aerial photograph from the
US military reconnaissance plane about one hour after explosion at
Hiroshima City on August 6, 1945 at 8:15 AM. It reconnoitered the
disaster at about 80 km southeast from the hypocenter. From 30 seconds
after the explosion of the atomic bomb, it was turning over to observe
the damage situation toward Hiroshima City. Although at about 30,000
feet (9.14 km) height also it fled over the sky, the mushroom cloud
swelled and rose higher than that. With gray clouds from the purple
flame, the center part exploded a red mass and the mushroom clouds
expanded out. Hiroshima City was completely swallowed by pyroclastic
flow like a
torrents of lava. Narrowly outside of the corner of Kure City at the
southeast end, the fog ranges from Kurashi to Etajima in the Seto Inland
Sea, but the other northeast to Hiroshima City was completely covered with mushroom clouds.