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Strike order for the Hiroshima bombing as posted on 5 August 1945 Hiroshima was the primary target of the first atomic bombing mission on 6 August, with Kokura and Nagasaki as alternative targets. The 393rd Bombardment Squadron B-29 Enola Gay , named after Tibbets's mother and piloted by Tibbets, took off from North Field, Tinian , about six ...
Operations Order No. 35 was an order issued by the 509th Composite Group on August 5, 1945 for the atomic bombing mission on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II.The Order was signed by Operations Officer Major James I. Hopkins, Jr. who would later fly Big Stink in the August 9, 1945 atomic bombing raid on Nagasaki, Japan, under the call sign "Dimples 90".
The Fat Man mushroom cloud resulting from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rises into the air from the hypocenter.. Substantial debate exists over the ethical, legal, and military aspects of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 August and 9 August 1945 respectively at the close of the Pacific War theater of World War II (1939–45).
Hiroshima today looks completely different than it did 73 years ago. On August 6, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima that destroyed most of the city and instantly killed 80,000 of ...
Pages in category "People killed during the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Little Boy was a type of atomic bomb created by the United States as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II.The name is also often used to describe the specific bomb (L-11) used in the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay on 6 August 1945, making it the first nuclear weapon used in warfare, and the second nuclear explosion in history ...
Group of 7 leaders convene in Hiroshima and honor victims of the U.S. atomic bomb. But they have no new plans to reduce the threat of nuclear war.
The atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, destroyed the city, killing 140,000 people, and a second bomb dropped three days later on Nagasaki killed an additional ...