Thousands of people will gather in Hiroshima near to the atomic bomb dome to mark 70 years now since the city was completely destroyed by an atomic bomb.
More than 100 Representatives countries are there, including Caroline Kennedy the US ambassador to Japan,she will be among those in the city’s peace memorial park on Thursday morning, marking the anniversary.
They will Stand in the shadow of the shell of the atomic bomb dome – what was then known the prefectural industrial promotion hall –hearing messages from survivors,childrens of hiroshima and the city’s mayor. Shinzo Abe the Japan’s prime minister, will also be there.
Seventy years ago, in the morning of 6 August 1945 ,the first nuclear attack countdown in history began , when the US B-29 took off from an airfield on the Pacific island of Tinian escorted by two surveillance planes .
Six hours’ flying time away In The Enola Gay, pilot Brig Gen Paul Tibbets nicknamed Little Boy, was carrying a 16 kiloton atomic bomb, ; his target was Hiroshima the port and major army base in western Japan .
As dawn broke in Hiroshima, a radar picked up some succession of american bombers flying overhead on missions further south.
After 7am local time, an american weather surveillance aircraft escorting pilot Brig Gen Paul Tibbets in the Enola Gay left the area and at 7.31am. it sends a message to the Enola Gay’s crew: “Weather good, possible to drop bomb.”
Forty-four minutes later, . Below, while , and older ones to factories to help Japan’s faltering war effort.
while people were preparing for an ordinary day at work and young children set out for school the Enola Gay released its payload. above them.
The bomb exploded 2,000ft (580 metres) above a bridge at the junction of two rivers :the Honkawa and Motoyasu, unleashing powerful flash blind people before a deafening boom.
The losses were huge 70,000 people died in the blast or from the firestorms. The power of the explosion, equal 15,000 tonnes of TNT, destroyed two-thirds of Hiroshima’s buildings.
A temple bell will toll and they will release doves into the skies from which tragedy had been visited on the city seventy years earlier. At 8.15am on Thursday, Hiroshima's survivors ,local and children will fall silent as it remembers its dead.
As on every other anniversary, this year The names of survivors " the hibakusha" who died in 2015 will be added to the peace park’s cenotaph. the total stood at 292,325.
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