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Audio Video Interleaved Video  |  1994-02-28  |  26.6 MB  |  156x116  |  9fps  |  3 minutes, 59 seconds
Transcription: You At 17 seconds after 8.15, on the clear bright morning of August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The pilots of the United States Air Force's 509th Composite Group could see flowers in the gardens below. The bomb weighed 9,000 pounds and was as powerful as 12,500 tons of TNT. The bomb exploded within 100 feet of the target. The fireball was 18,000 feet across. The temperature at the center of the fireball was as hot as the surface of the sun. Near the center, people became nothing. Near the center, There was no sound. The light from the bomb flashed whiter than any w ...