What Was the Bombing of Hiroshima? Chapter 5 & 6

On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb ever used in war exploded on _________.

The blast from the bomb traveled outward at ____ miles per hour.

In an instant, Hiroshima simply ceased to exist.

• True

• False

For many hours after the bomb was dropped, the Japanese government did not know what had happened.

• True

• False

The first real news of what happened came _______ hours later when the United States announced the bombing.

______ ____ means the exact point where the bomb exploded.

Over the next four months, as many as ______ Hiroshima survivors would die.

_____ _____ was a famous scientist who studied radioactive materials.

Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person to do so in two different sciences.

• True

• False

The exact number of people who died was easy to determine a few weeks after the bombing.

• True

• False