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On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., the crew of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped the first wartime atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan, a bustling regional hub that served as an important...
These haunting photos capture Hiroshima before and after the August 1945 bombing that destroyed the city and introduced atomic weapons to the world. In an instant, 80,000 died, while generations after would carry the scars of the world's first atomic bombing.
In 2008, Japanese photographer Hitoshi Ohuchi made a remarkable discovery: the largest known photographic archive of Hiroshima before the United States detonated an atomic bomb over the city.
On August 6, 1945, a mushroom cloud billows into the sky about one hour after an atomic bomb was dropped by American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, detonating above Hiroshima, Japan. Nearly...
On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., the nuclear weapon “Little Boy” was dropped on Hiroshima by an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, flown by Colonel Paul Tibbets, directly killing an estimated 70,000 people, including 20,000 Japanese combatants and 2,000 Korean slave laborers.
These aerial photographs show ground zero before and after the atomic bombing. The foreground shows the ruins of the Hiroshima Gas Company Building (800 feet from the hypocenter). In the center are the ruins of the Honkawa Elementary School.
On August 6, 1945, at about 8:15 AM, Hiroshima became the first city in the world to be struck by an atomic bomb. Hiroshima had not been attacked during World War II before the atomic bomb was dropped. The bomb, called Little Boy, was a gun-assembly fission bomb.
It is 75 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August, leading to the end of World War Two. The article contains graphic images and...
The United States bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and August 9, 1945, were the first instances of atomic bombs used against humans, killing tens of thousands of people, obliterating the cities, and contributing to the end of World War II.
A timeline of the events in the days and hours before the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.