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The atomic bomb cloud over Nagasaki, Japan, was described in The Times of London of 13 August 1945 as a "huge mushroom of smoke and dust". On 9 September 1945, The New York Times published an eyewitness account of the Nagasaki bombing, written by William L. Laurence , the official newspaper correspondent of the Manhattan Project , who ...
English: For decades this image was commonly misidentified as the mushroom cloud of the Little Boy bomb that formed around 8:15 AM local time. However due to its greater height and the wholly different time of day, it is a pyrocumulus* cloud that occurs frequently over firestorms.
On 6 August 1945, an intense cumulonimbus-like cloud was photographed above Hiroshima, long after the cloud generated by the atomic bomb had dissipated. The cloud was a result of the firestorm that had by then engulfed the city. [2]
Related: Iconic photos from WWII: Fat Man was the second nuclear weapon to be deployed in combat after the US dropped a 5-ton atomic bomb, called "Little Boy," on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
Detonation of the Mark III 'Fat Man' and ensuing mushroom cloud. Hypocenter of Fat Man Atomic bomb in Nagasaki. Bockscar lifted off at 03:47 on 9 August 1945, with Kokura as the primary target and Nagasaki the secondary target. The weapon was already armed but with the green electrical safety plugs still engaged.
Footage posted online showed a mushroom-shaped cloud rolling out in the US city of Norman
For decades this photo was misidentified as the mushroom cloud of the bomb that formed at c. 08:16. [153] [154] However, due to its much greater height, the scene was identified in March 2016 as the firestorm-cloud that engulfed the city, [154] some three hours after the bombing. [155]
Some of the Barbenheimer memes and fan art depict the atomic bomb mushroom cloud rendered in hot pink. ... and 'Oppenheimer' (distributed by Universal Pictures), together which were both released ...