About 2,500 times larger (in power)
one
90,000-166,000
The new bombs are many, many times more powerful. The Hiroshima bomb was only .02 kilotons. Twenty megatons today is common. so, hundreds of times more powerful.
2
8,900
See website: Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
About 150,000
90,000-166,000
90,000-166,000
Many people would agree that the only pro of dropping the bomb on Hiroshima was that it ended the war. Thirty percent of the population of Hiroshima were killed by the bombing.
The atomic bomb was dropped over Hiroshima on August 6 1945 and killed an estimate of 90,000-166,000 persons.
220,000 people if you combine Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bomb dropped on Hiroshima by itself killed 140,000; the one dropped on Nagasaki killed 80,000.