On the 6th of August 1945 the U.S army dropped an Atomic bomb on Heroshima and another one on Nagasaki.The bombs were equivelent to 20,000 tons of TNT. The weapons were able to cause Japan to surrender but unfortunately the bombs also killed thousands of inocent civilians. Here are the details. On Monday August 6 1945 at 2:15 a.m a B-29 Superfortress nicknamed Enola Gay took off from Tinian the twelve man crew on board made sure the misson was a secret.For the plane to carry such a heavy payload the plane was modified with new propellers, stronger engines and faster opening bomb bay doors only 15 bombers were modified like this. The bomber was acompanied by 2 other bombers with cameras and several measureing devices.at around 3:00 the crew began to arm the bomb codenamed Little Boy. Little Boy was created using uranium-235. Uranium-235 is a radioactive isotope of uranium. At around 8:15 a.m the B-29s bombbay doors open.Little Boy explodes 1900 feet above the city and only missed the target the Aioi bridge by approximately 800 feet.
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| some of the crew members and the B-29 that droped the bomb |
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| the atom bomb known as Little Boy |
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