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  2. May 13, 2024 · Little Boy, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, was a gun-assembly fission bomb using uranium, whereas Fat Man, the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, was an implosion fission bomb utilizing plutonium. When were the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

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  3. Nov 18, 2009 · On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed an...

  4. On the morning of August 6, 1945, the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The Most Fearsome Sight: The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

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  5. 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.

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  6. Jun 7, 2021 · 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.

  7. 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.

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