![]() ![]() In Hiroshima, it fell for hours across a vast range from ground zero to a place more than 10km away from the center. Radioactive rain follows approximately 30 mins after the bomb. The violent bomb blast creates an updraft current immediately after impact, winding up dust, carbon and soot into the sky. Several cases of radioactive rain were observed in the Chernobyl disaster as well as in nuclear testing sites around the world. As a matter of fact, these are not the only instances of black rain observed in history. What is “black rain”?īlack rain is nuclear fallout or radioactive blackened rain that fell after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Prefecture. ![]() ![]() Although most of the deaths and injuries were due to the burns from heat rays and the explosive blast, another factor has continuously afflicted survivors who witnessed the lightning-like bomb on the day: black rain. At 8:15 am on August 6, 1945, the bomb dropped by the Enola Gay exploded over the capital city of Hiroshima Prefecture, killing and maiming hundreds of thousands of people. ![]()
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