Yahoo Web Search

Search results

    • Image courtesy of researchgate.net

      researchgate.net

      6 and 9 August 1945

      • On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
      en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
  1. People also ask

  2. Apr 5, 2024 · The first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in New Mexico as part of the U.S. government program called the Manhattan Project. The United States then used atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan on August 6 and 9, respectively, killing about 210,000 people.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  3. On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.

    • 6 and 9 August 1945
  4. Jun 5, 2014 · On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The bomb was known as “Little Boy”, a uranium gun-type bomb that exploded with about thirteen kilotons of force. At the time of the bombing, Hiroshima was home to 280,000-290,000 civilians as well as 43,000 soldiers.

  5. Apr 26, 2016 · 1100 (1000 Hiroshima time): A message from Hiroshima to the Army Ministry references information about a new American bomb and reports that “this must be it.” 1458: Enola Gay lands in Tinian Island at the North Field.

  6. Sep 6, 2017 · An atomic bomb, codenamed "Little Boy," was dropped over Hiroshima Japan on August 6, 1945. The bomb, which detonated with an energy of around 15 kilotons of TNT, was the first nuclear weapon ...

    • Missy Sullivan
    • 1 min
  7. Aug 4, 2020 · On the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the National Security Archive updates its 2005 publication of the most comprehensive on-line collection of declassified U.S. government documents on the first use of the atomic bomb and the end of the war in the Pacific.

  1. People also search for