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MANY victims of Hiroshima died like those firefighters died. Not all were vaporized instantly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and
by catalogia 6y ago
MANY victims of Hiroshima died like those firefighters died. Not all were vaporized instantly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki#Post-attack_casualties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_a...
(I know the premise you were responding to was standing right next to ground zero, where you would have been vaporized, but I think it's worth mentioning that not all of the people killed died like that.)
- redis_mlc 6y agoSince it's pedantic HN nuclear day again, actually it was an airburst.
- catalogia 6y agoWell since we're being pedantic, I didn't say anything about groundbursts. "Ground zero" in the context of Hiroshima refers to the hypocenter. > In the case of an explosion above the ground, ground zero is the point on the ground directly below the nuclear detonation and is sometimes called the hypocenter (from Greek ὑπο- "under-" and center). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_zero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_zero