Why did people's shadow's stick to walls in Hiroshima?

Question

atomic bomb

Answer 1

Their shadow's didn't stick to walls. The bomb created such intense heat and light that in fact the walls were burned, where there was a shadow from the explosion by a person standing in the way, the wall was burned 'less,' creating a permanent shadow in the wall.

Answer 2

Their shadows didn't stick - the point source intensity of the blast burned their outline into the wall, less heat that was being absorbed by the body while they were being burned up. On a much smaller scale, when we had a fire in our house draperies burned first and hot air collected against the ceiling which instead of plaster was painted cellotex which is an insulator. When the paint got hot enough, it flashed over and in my sisters room burned a "shadow" of the light chandileir across the ceiling that exactly matched the view if standing looking just under the door top. Fortunately, no one was home, unlike in Hiroshima.

Answer 3

its not so much that their shadows "stuck"

What happened was the light/radiation that is emitted from an atomic bomb it so intense it burned everything so if someone was between the bomb and say a wall when it went off the person would shield an area of the wall

Answer 4

was not their shadow as caused by absence of light.
Radiation was so strong that the body saved the wall from damage.

Answer 5

There image was etched in the walls ,the flash was very hot.