At approximately 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, a U.S. B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. About 80,000 people were killed instantly, and many more died in the following years from radiation sickness. In total, it is estimated that over 200,000 people died as a result of the nuclear blasts in Japan.
The United Nations classifies the nuclear bomb as “the most dangerous weapon on Earth.” One bomb can destroy an entire city in seconds, potentially ending millions of lives depending on where it is dropped, and can throw the natural environment into chaos. The source material notes that this destructive capacity is not theoretical: it has been used before.
From Hiroshima to the Disarmament Question
The source frames the 1945 attack as the starting point of the nuclear age and asks how far the world has come since then. It also raises a question it does not answer: how many bombs remain at our disposal. No current arsenal figures, treaty details, or U.S. disarmament milestones are provided in the supplied material.
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