History for the day

History has an article about Hiroshima:

On this day in 1945, at 8:16 am Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped the world’s first atom bomb over the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Approximately eighty thousand people were killed as a direct result of the blast, and another thirty-five thousand are injured. At least another sixty thousand would be dead by the end of the year from the effects of the fallout.
President Harry S. Truman, discouraged by the Japanese response to the Potsdam Conference’s demand for unconditional surrender, made the decision to use the atom bomb to end the war in order to prevent what he predicted would be a much greater loss of life were the United States to invade the Japanese mainland. And so, on 5 August 1945, while a “conventional” bombing of Japan was underway, Little Boy, (the nickname for one of two atom bombs available for use against Japan), was loaded onto Lieutenant Colonel Paul W. Tibbets’ plane on Tinian Island in the Marianas. Tibbets’ B-29, named the Enola Gay after his mother, left the island at 2:45 am on 6 August 1945. Five and a half hours later, Little Boy was dropped, exploding two thousand feet over a hospital and unleashing the equivalent of twelve thousand tons of TNT. The bomb had several inscriptions scribbled on its shell, one of which read Greetings to the Emperor from the men of the Indianapolis, the ship that transported the bomb to the Marianas.
There were ninety thousand buildings in Hiroshima before the bomb was dropped; less than thirty thousand remained after the bombing. Of the city’s two hundred doctors before the explosion, only twentt were left alive or capable of working. There were nearly two thousand nurses before, but only a hundred and fifty remained able to tend to the sick and dying.
According to John Hersey’s classic book Hiroshima, the Hiroshima city government had put hundreds of schoolgirls to work clearing fire lanes in the event of incendiary bomb attacks. They were out in the open when the Enola Gay dropped its load.
There were so many spontaneous fires set as a result of the bomb that a crewman of the Enola Gay stopped trying to count them. Another crewman remarked, “It’s pretty terrific. What a relief it worked.”

Rico says it was terrible, but we didn't start that stupid war, they did...