In other words, the power of nuclear weapons is one of the most lethal and destructive weapons ever made by mankind, and its power is difficult to fully describe in simple words.
As the saying goes, practice makes sense, although after World War II, countries have done many tests to test the power of nuclear weapons, but tests are tests after all, and you can't really throw one into the city to test lethality...
Japan has the most say in this regard, take a look at the following set of comparison photos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki before and after the atomic bombing, maybe you will have a correct understanding of the atomic bomb!
The Hiroshima Imperial Military Headquarters (Pavilion No. 1), the Emperor's temporary residence in Hiroshima Castle, where Meiji lived for 7 months, and only a small part of this building remained after the bombing of the nuclear bombing on August 6, 45.
At that time, this was the location of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, because most of the soldiers came from Hiroshima, also known as the Hiroshima Division, extremely arrogant and brutal, not only experienced the Sino-Japanese War, but also fought Xuzhou, Taiyuan, Taierzhuang and other major battles during the Anti-Japanese War, after the outbreak of the Pacific War, he was transferred, and we can be said to have a deep blood feud!
Most of the former Nagakawa Ward of Hiroshima was razed to the ground before and after the atomic bombing, and the building that still stands is the Nagagawa Methodist Christian Church.
Several priests inside survived the explosion and were not exposed to radiation or adverse effects from the bomb. Despite the ruins, many worshippers went to worship shortly after the explosion.
Hiroshima Railway Station, which is far from the blast center, was less damaged than other buildings, except that some of the windows were shattered by the shock wave.
But the ensuing fire still burned the roof and spread to the interior, and at the time of the explosion, two to three thousand people in the square outside the station suffered burns and lacerations of varying degrees due to the nuclear explosion.
The Hiroshima Central Telephone Exchange, about 1 km from the center of the explosion, has been shown in the room where equipment such as the telephone exchange and the electric automaton have been greatly damaged, but the skeleton of the building has been preserved.
The school building was badly damaged, but the east wall of the school building remained, and the explosion shook the walls of the second and third floors into waves.
In 1928, the first reinforced concrete school building in Hiroshima was built, about 410 meters from the center of the explosion, and the explosion killed 400 students and 15 teachers.
Hiroshima Prefectural Government before the atomic bombing, this building was built in 1878 and served as the prefectural government center for 67 years, until the day of Showa 20 (1945).
The neighborhood was razed to the ground after the explosion, but it was vaguely recognizable through several gateposts that it was the same place.
The Hiroshima Castle Tower, located in a corner of Hiroshima Castle (castle), was built during the Warring States period and has a history of more than 500 years, and is an important historical site in Japan.
On the day of the explosion, it was only about a kilometer from the blast center, and the wooden castle tower was undoubtedly blown to pieces, and it was rebuilt in 1958 as a concrete building.
The Hiroshima Nuclear Bomb Dome, formerly the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Incentive Hall, is one of the few surviving buildings near the center of the explosion, but none of the people inside survived.
This reinforced concrete building designed by Jack was designed with natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis in mind, but after all, I didn't expect that there would be nuclear weapons...
Comparison of the nuclear bomb dome and its surroundings before and after the nuclear explosion, it is the only large-scale building that has survived the nuclear bomb center and has been preserved to this day.
On the opposite alluvial island, most of the buildings are wooden structures, which were almost flattened under the shock wave of the nuclear explosion and the impact of the fire, and only a few concrete buildings stand sporadically.
The original blast center was located over the T-shaped bridge, but in the end, the main structure of the bridge was preserved due to the wind deviating a few hundred meters from the southeast, and there was a building near the blast center.
The building was the Hiroshima Chamber of Commerce and Industry at the time, and it was only about 300 meters from the level of the blast center, but you can see that the roof was sunken due to the impact of the nuclear explosion.
Shima Hospital, which is believed to be the exact center of the explosion of the little boy in Hiroshima, the atomic bomb was detonated directly above the building, also known as the ground zero, and the entire hospital was blown to slag, and all the medical staff and patients present, about 80 people, died on the spot.
Kaoru Shima, the director of the hospital, happened to go to another city to see patients that day, and he was the only one among all the medical staff who escaped.
Comparison of the Bank of Japan Hiroshima Branch before and after the nuclear explosion, this place is about 400 meters away from the blast center, 380 meters away from the nuclear explosion dome, the windows before the nuclear explosion are equipped with armored shutters, no collapse, the main structure is intact.
But the explosion nevertheless broke through the windows of the third floor and caused a fire, in which five of the 12 employees who worked inside died on the spot.
Mitsui Bank Hiroshima Branch, about 360 meters from the center of the explosion, the exterior wall of the northwest was blown away in the explosion, a large part of the ceiling roof collapsed, and 80% of the internal structure was destroyed.
But inside the bank, the safe made by the American company Mosler is intact, and through the propaganda of American soldiers, this kind of safe has become popular in the United States, which can be described as the most hardcore advertisement...
Aerial photography of the city before and after the atomic bombing, the Little Boy atomic bomb exploded 600 meters above the area where he was sitting, and only about 50 earthquake-resistant concrete buildings survived within 1 mile (1.6 km) of the blast center.
Its equivalent is not as good as that of the fat man thrown at Nagasaki, but the losses and the number of victims in Hiroshima are much higher, because Hiroshima is flat, and the epicenter of Nagasaki is located in a small valley. The radius of the ring in the photo is about 300 meters.
Hiroshima, about 700 meters from the center of the atomic bombing, is a remnant of the Sumitomo Bank building, which contrasts sharply with the surrounding ruins.
In fact, the power of a nuclear explosion is not as devastating as you think, and most of the modern concrete structure buildings can be preserved intact after the nuclear explosion.
Before and after the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, the comparison taken by the high-altitude aerial photography of the US Army Air Corps is quite shocking from the sky, except for the roads and bridges, it seems that all traces of human existence have been erased.
However, the terrain of Nagasaki is much more complex than that of Hiroshima, and the power of the atomic bomb has been greatly weakened by the terrain, so the number of deaths is much lower than that of Hiroshima.
Before and after the explosion in the Daikokucho area of Nagasaki, the river on the right is the Urakami River, and the surviving building on the lower left is the Nishinakamachi Cathedral at the time, located about 2.5 kilometers southwest of the blast.
The power of the nuclear bomb seems to have diminished considerably after it reached the area, and large swaths of buildings still survived in the distance.
Nagasaki Sanno Shrine, located on a hillside about 800 meters from the center of the blast, collapsed without a trace at the Atomic Bomb Shrine in August 1945, but was rebuilt in 1950 and has remained until now.
On the road leading to Sanno Shrine, there is a torii gate, commonly known as a single-pillar torii. Initially, there were four torii gates, but as a result of the atomic bombing, two of them collapsed in a powerful shock wave. After the war, the remaining torii gate was demolished, and only the single-pillar torii gate on the right half of this pillar still stands.
Therefore, the real power of nuclear weapons is not mass destruction, and all the nuclear bombs in the world together cannot destroy a medium-sized country...
What really changed the logic of war was the ICBM, because it made everyone in power who started the war realize that even if they were hiding in the rear, they could be in danger!