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Marx_Forever t1_j94w6o8 wrote

Reply to comment by Zqin in Nuclear shadow, Nagasaki by allez05

Yeah, that was my guess, it's not so much a "burn" as the flash was so intensely bright that it bleached the pigment out of everything, much like the Sun, and the people and objects simply blocked that initial Flash in the moments they were incinerated.

Truly horrifying.

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Pointingirl t1_j94via4 wrote

Reply to comment by Present-Extent-8073 in Nuclear shadow, Nagasaki by allez05

I can’t tell you the answer to your question, but I can tell you that I read a book in hs just titled “Hiroshima” and one of the stories was about how there were soldiers whose job it was to stare at the sky and watch for a nuke. When the bomb went off and they were staring directly at it, it literally melted their eyeballs out of their heads.

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RhymenoserousRex t1_j94vena wrote

Reply to Nuclear shadow, Nagasaki by allez05

Go read the book “To hell and back” it’s accounts of survivors of the nuke. If you were ever a proponent of using these weapons that book will cure you of that.

I had to take breaks between chapters.

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Zqin t1_j94v2mn wrote

Reply to comment by humanbeing2018 in Nuclear shadow, Nagasaki by allez05

I was curious too and found this: "Objects and people in its path shielded objects behind them by absorbing the light and energy. The surrounding light bleached the concrete or stone around the "shadow." In other words, those eerie shadows are actually how the sidewalk or building looked, more or less, before the nuclear blast." Source

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