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At 8.15am the uranium atom bomb exploded 580 metres above the city with a blinding flash, creating a fireball that blazed like a small sun with a temperature of more than a million degrees Celcius at the centre.
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The Second World War, in many Western minds, was to make Hiroshima less a geographical place than an image and an event: a blasted landscape dated 6 August 1945, when the American B-29 Superfortress bomber Enola Gay shimmered out of a beautiful blue sky and dropped on it the bomb, nicknamed 'Little Boy' by its makers, which seconds later became the most destructive weapon the world had ever seen. But by 1944 songs and films to raise the morale of the Japanese people for war prevailed,' Mr Tanabe said. They played Western music and it was very exciting. Or they played jazz on a gramophone and people danced the tango. 'Inside they sometimes had tap dancing by Japan's best dancers, although not as good as Fred Astaire. The Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, built in Western style by a Czech architect in 1915, was a symbol of modernity, and boys peer in for a glimpse at the modern world. There was a park beside the hall where we caught insects and dragonflies and played hide and seek and jumped into the river from the bridge. With friends I slid down the handrail of the spiral staircase in the hall. 'I rode my tricycle in the gardens there. 'For children the industrial promotion hall was the best playground there was,' said Mr Tanabe, now 67.