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On This Day: United States Drops Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima - 0 views

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  • On Aug. 6, 1945, U.S. war plane Enola Gay dropped “Little Boy,” a 8,900-pound atomic bomb, on Hiroshima, Japan.
  • The United States and Japan had been at war since 1941. By 1945,
  • Truman authorized the use of the atomic bomb as soon after Aug.
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  • The 8,900-pound bomb, called “Little Boy,” was to be carried in a B-29 Superfortress piloted by Col. Paul W. Tibbets,
  • At 8:15 a.m. local time, the Enola Gay dropped Little Boy onto Hiroshima. Just 43 seconds later it exploded 1,900 feet above the city.
  • It has been difficult to determine a definitive death toll. Between 70,000 and 80,000 of the more than 340,000 people in the city are believed to have been killed by the initial blast, and many more died in the following weeks and years from injuries and radiation. The official Japanese death toll, calculated a year after the explosion, is 118,661. Other estimates put the number of deaths at more than 140,000, while thousands of other victims have suffered from radiation sickness, cancer and other long-term effects.
  • Nick B on 26 Feb 14
     
    this website gives the name of the Bomb, the plane, and the pilot who flew the plane. Also it give you the death toll of the explosion.
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