At ground zero - the Shima clinic - directly beneath the detonation, the temperature reached several thousand degrees centigrade. The temperature at its core was 50 million degrees centigrade.
IN THE first millisecond after 8:16 a.m., a pinprick of purplish red light expanded to a glowing fireball hundreds of feet wide. Midnight)įrom 'Ruin From The Air' by Gordon Thomas & Max Morgan Witts Shockwave: chapter of 'Ruin From The Air': Hiroshima AugShockwave ( August 6, 1945, 8:16 a.m.