It was the biggest bomb used in World War II until the use of the American atomic bombs in August of 1945 against Japan at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While no exact figure can be measured of the explosion, it is estimated that the bomb dropped on Hiroshima's explosive power ranged from 12,000 to 20,000 pounds of TNT.

This is one of around 40,000 images from The Scotsman newspaper's glass plate negative collection. These were digitised in preparation for The Scotsman moving to their new headquarters at Holyrood Road, Edinburgh, in 1999. The glass plate negatives themselves are now held in the Scottish Life Archive of the National Museums of Scotland. The Scotsman is one of Scotland's oldest newspapers, and was first published in 1817.

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