Rapatronic photos of atomic bomb detonations, some 1/100,000,000 of a second. “I am become death, the destroyer of world.” Hiroshima bomb - 100 billion atmospheres of pressure. Temperature at center was four times that at the center of the sun and more than 10,000 times that at the sun’s surface. Temperature at epicenter 9,000 degrees F, with 1,000 mile per hour winds. Nasty stuff. I know that it was necessary and it saved countless lives, including probably a million Japanese. But, horrific. I’ve never questioned the necessity of dropping those bombs. I did recently view a documentary White Light, Black Rain and it was absolutely heart rending. A portion can be viewed in the excerpt from YouTube below the link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_58byuLBu0