Exhibition· Paris
DIX MILLE DEGRÉS SUR LA PLACE DE LA PAIX
At 8:15 in the morning on 6th August 1945, the atomic bomb dropped by the Enola Gay, a B-29 Superfortress, exploded 580 metres above the city of Hiroshima, home to 350,000 people. The city’s warning sirens had not sounded, and no one had time to take shelter. The explosion produced a cyclone of heat and radiation that flattened all homes and buildings within a three-kilometre radius. 90% of the ci