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The Writer's Almanac
Aug. 6th, 2009 09:04 amIt was on this day in 1945 that the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan.
On August 5, the bomb was loaded onto a specially designed B-29 bomber. It contained 2.2 pounds of uranium. The bomb was dropped over Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m. It exploded 1,900 feet above the ground. Capt. Robert Lewis watched the explosion from his cockpit and wrote in his journal, "My God, what have we done?" About 80,000 people died instantly, and 60,000 more would die from their injuries in the coming months.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (books by this author) was born 200 years ago today in Lincolnshire, England (1809). He's one of the most popular English-language poets ever. It was Tennyson who first penned "'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all" and the phrase "Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die." He also wrote, "My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure."
( His cooking show LADY OF SHALLOTTS only ran for one season. )
On August 5, the bomb was loaded onto a specially designed B-29 bomber. It contained 2.2 pounds of uranium. The bomb was dropped over Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m. It exploded 1,900 feet above the ground. Capt. Robert Lewis watched the explosion from his cockpit and wrote in his journal, "My God, what have we done?" About 80,000 people died instantly, and 60,000 more would die from their injuries in the coming months.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (books by this author) was born 200 years ago today in Lincolnshire, England (1809). He's one of the most popular English-language poets ever. It was Tennyson who first penned "'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all" and the phrase "Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die." He also wrote, "My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure."
