I guess it would be called ground zero. Is it known where it exactly happened?
2007-09-20 05:05:05 · 14 answers · asked by Jerse 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
People are correct about the above-ground detonation. Most of the radioactive particles left by the bomb have been buried, sealed into building materials or otherwise disposed of by now. Alpha and Beta particles have a very long half-life (thousands of years), but are very low intensity. With one, a sheet of paper is sufficient protection. Gamma radiation (what caused most of the radiation sickness) has a half life of a few days and is no longer a factor.
2007-09-20 05:18:48 · answer #1 · answered by loryntoo 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There never was a hole; the bomb burst was intentionally high in the air so that it would knock down buildings rather than dig a hole. The point of ground zero is well known; I don't know whether there is any sort of marker there.
2007-09-20 12:10:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hiroshima has "Peace Park" to commemorate the 1st nuclear expolsion. There are buildings still gutted and left as tributes to those lost. The expolsion actually happened in the air and expoded down towards the ground. Here is a link to a map of the park.
http://www.nvccom.co.jp/peacepark/mape.html
2007-09-20 12:13:34 · answer #3 · answered by CrusaderJJ 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I doubt there is a hole, but I'm sure there is a ground zero as that's the general term used for the spot where an explosion occurred. Nuclear bombs don't detonate on impact. They detonate when all of the right pieces of the puzzle, so to speak, are in place. Usually it's one piece left out and when the timer releases that one piece, BOOM.
2007-09-20 12:09:39 · answer #4 · answered by Sinclair 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
An observatory directly at the epicenter of the blast was one of the few buildings left standing. It's ruins are kept as a memorial to the event.
The bomb was dropped from six miles high and detonated at 2,000 feet for maximum blast pattern and dissipation of the radiation (that's why the entire city wasn't radio active after-wards.)
2007-09-20 12:11:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
No 'bomb crater' per se, since the bomb exploded over the city.
As for where it happened: " Forty-three seconds later, a huge explosion lit the morning sky as Little Boy detonated 1,900 feet above the city, directly over a parade field where soldiers of the Japanese Second Army were doing calisthenics."
2007-09-20 12:10:34 · answer #6 · answered by Ice 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is no said Hole, although they have identified the exact spot the bomb hit and have developed around that area . remember nothing was left after the bomb drop, There is a park with names of those who died - sad place to be actually.
2007-09-20 12:12:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just a hole in the population,and the people's mind.Yes the exact place is known,Peace Park.
2007-09-20 12:12:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No holes anymore...but there are still walls left with the shadows of people burned into them.....one of our paper salesmen was stationed there for a while, and told me about them.. I also read about them in a book about Hiroshima.
2007-09-20 12:10:31 · answer #9 · answered by Blue Oyster Kel 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There wasn't really a crater because the explosion happened several hundred feet above the ground. (Atomic bombs do more damage this way.)
2007-09-20 12:10:41 · answer #10 · answered by Nature Boy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋