radiation well. Kyoto- It had a large population and would hold radiation well which would lead to more effective incineration and destruction. The main tool in the dropping of the atomic bomb was the Enola Gay. The Enola Gay was a huge B-29 bomber designed to carry the weight of the bomb and to survive through the shockwave. Enola Gay was the pilots mothers name. The first atomic bomb ever dropped was dropped on Hiroshima on August 5, 1945 at 8:16am. This bomb, coincidentally named Little Boy. This bomb released a huge amount of radiation which caused people to melt, incinerate and suffer through radiation poisoning. This bomb also caused buildings to collapse, houses to burn and cars to explode. This bomb was so horrible one lady said My friend took up seven skeletons at a time, his five children, his wife and his mother. We soldiers were the ones that were supposed to die. (Akiamatsu 53) This bomb was truly a device for one purpose, to wipe out an entire civilization. The average annual radiation intake in a human body is 0.01 rads of radiation. If you were within 100 meters of the bombs neutron rays you would absorb 33.1 rads of radiation. If you were within 500 meters of the bombs neutron rays you would absorb 6.04 rads of radiation. If you were within 1,000 meters of the bombs neutron rays you would absorb 0.227 rads of radiation. The effects of radiation on the human body is horrible. Twenty-five rads of radiation would put a person in a coma and kill you within hours. Ten rads of radiation would destroy a persons bone marrow, give them radiation sickness, killing them within thirty days. One rad of radiation would make a person extremely nauseous and make them vomit. One-tenth of a rad of radiation would change a persons bone marrow structure. After the dropping of the atomic bomb, Hiroshima was nothing like it had been. Where once stood tall buildings lay ashes. The only thing left partially standing was the Ai Noi bridge, the ...
