Two young girls carrying bags of rationed rice were returning home in early September 1945 near Yamazato-machi, about 700 meters north of the hypocenter of the Nagasaki atomic bomb. There were only a few distribution points, so the citizens went on an expedition for rations. With the bags of rationed food on their shoulders, the girls hurried home. The explosion of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki made life difficult, and they were plunged into misery and a life of nothingness. There was absolutely no hope for their lives. There was an unusual smell from the Nagasaki atomic bomb, and the streets were littered with Hibakusha who had died on the streets, Hibakusha who had died after sticking their heads into water tanks in search of water, Hibakusha who were bleeding from burns, and Hibakusha who were still alive in search of water. In Nagasaki City, the city was filled with the stench of strange smells and death, relatives searching for their families, survivors living naked, survivors with maggots, survivors seeking water for water, flies abnormally swarming in summer to the point of turning black, and the smell of strange smells and dead bodies.
The atomic bomb in Nagasaki was dropped by a U.S. B-29 from an altitude of about 9,000 meters on August 9, 1945, and exploded about 500 meters above the ground at 171 Matsuyama-cho, Nagasaki City. In about 1/100th of a second, it released radioactivity from nuclear fission. At about 0.2, a mushroom cloud was generated from the fireball, and a huge mushroom cloud with a diameter of about 310 meters rose up. The center temperature of the fireball generated by the Nagasaki atomic bomb when it exploded was about 1,000,000 degrees Celsius, about 300,000 degrees Celsius after 1/10,000th of a second, the diameter of the fireball at this point was about 30 meters, about 1 second later it was about 3,000 degrees C, the diameter was about 400 meters, and it disappeared after about 10 seconds. The extinguished Nagasaki bomb was a plutonium-type atomic bomb, which was about twice as powerful as the Hiroshima uranium-type bomb.
The boys and girls had difficulty studying at school and had no exercise. They had no clothes to wear, no food to eat, and everything was on ration cards. They could hardly eat white or silver rice. Of course, there were no sweets, meat, chocolate, or ice cream. It was a time of extreme poverty. The children were evacuated in groups to the countryside to live together to avoid the cost of war, such as bombing.
The population of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at that time was about 350,000 and 270,000, respectively. The number of people killed by the atomic bombs was about 140,000 in Hiroshima and 70,000 in Nagasaki.
