Before and After the Atomic Bomb

Inside the Peace Memorial Museum are huge mock-ups of the city of Hiroshima before and after the bombing.  It is hard to imagine the type of destruction that took place.  When the bomb exploded, the temperature at the center of the fireball was several million degrees centigrade.  The temperature on the ground near the hypocenter was 2,000 to 3,000 degree centigrade -- consuming all combustibles and melting tile and glass.
Roll your mouse over the image to see what was left after the blast!
The target of the bomb was the T-shaped bridge in the lower right-hand corner.  The A-Bomb Dome is the green tile-roofed building near the center along the river.  The hypocenter of the bomb is marked by a red pole on the left (in the "after" photo).