Nine years after the bombing of Hiroshima, the first Godzilla film was released in Japan. As Schlosser notes, that remaining uranium that killed 80,000 people weighed less than a dollar bill.Ī 1954 movie poster for Godzilla (also known as Gojira in Japan) showing the monster’s fire-breathing heat beam inspired by Hiroshima.
In the end, the explosion was caused by just 0.7g of Uranium. What’s interesting though, is that by the time the bomb exploded, most of the uranium was blown apart before the bomb reached the “supercritical” phase. Read the first-hand account of his experiences in this fascinating article.Ģ.) “Little Boy” used almost all the Uranium in existenceĪccording to Command and Control by Eric Schlosser, the bomb that hit Hiroshima (aka “Little Boy”), took 141 pounds of Uranium, which was pretty much all of the processed Uranium that was then in existence. It is believed that about 165 people experienced both atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but Tsutomu Yamaguchi was the only one to be officially honored by Japan as the “twice-bombed person.” He suffered some injuries in both attacks, but actually went on to live a relatively normal life, until the age of 93. The man who survived both atomic blasts and was officially honored as the “twice-bombed person” by Japan, Tsutomu Yamaguchi.
