Important thing to take out of it: the volume of destruction in Hiroshima, and the mass fire, was due to shitty construction quality. It's like when a hurricane

Important thing to take out of it: the volume of destruction in Hiroshima, and the mass fire, was due to shitty construction quality. It's like when a hurricane levels entire Puerto Rico once every 10 years but when a stronger hurricane happens in Florida, damage is very localised and not really a problem. Was it built like a normal European city with brick or reinforced concrete buildings and not enough combustible material for a mass fire, damage and losses could be an order of magnitude smaller. This is also why megaton range bombs are not at all an overkill. Unfortunately, spectacular volume of destruction due to unique circumstances of Hiroshima being widely popularised, created an inflated impression of power of nuclear weapons, stoking fears and preventing Cold War from being finished in a quick job 30 years earlier.