On the morning of August 6, 1945, as Hiroshima moved through an ordinary workday, a person sat on the stone steps outside the Sumitomo Bank, about 260 meters from where the atomic bomb “Little Boy” would explode minutes later. At 8:15 a.m., a flash of extreme heat and light swept over the city, instantly ending the life of the person on the steps and tens of thousands of others nearby. The bomb’s thermal rays scorched and whitened the exposed stone, but the person’s body briefly acted as a shiel

Human Shadows Left Etched In Stone By the Atomic Bombs Dropped On Japan | War History Online