On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is now a museum exhibit.
An aerial photo of the atomic cloud rising over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. (US Library of Congress) The world changed ...
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On August 6, 1945 — 81 years ago — the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the city of Hiroshima, Japan.
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The scene of destruction after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb ...