A World In Pictures #4

This is a picture of Hiroshima, Japan in 1942.  This was the sight of the first ever atomic bomb drop. The atomic bomb was the worlds very first "weapon of mass destruction". The bomb killed thousands along with obliterating an entire city. The bomb was also responsible for plenty of deaths years after it was dropped due to radiation-related issues such as different types of cancer that developed in a number of survivors. This picture makes you think of the amount of destruction that the human race is able to cause. If every country dropped every bomb that they currently have manufactured, Earth could be blown out of existence. This one bomb had the capability of wiping small islands off the map. If we had tried to mass produce this bomb, Japan would no longer exist. The first atomic bomb killed 80,000 people instantly and another 60,000 from post-drop effects. That's bigger than most towns and cities in Kentucky. It's about half the population of Lexington. But in 1942, it would've been all of Lexington. None of us would be living here if one of those bombs had been dropped in central Kentucky. Some of us wouldn't be alive due to our ancestors living here and then being killed by the blast. All of this could have happened, and the atomic bomb isn't even the most powerful explosive that mankind has engineered.