Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima

On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber named the Enola Gay left the island of Tinian for Hiroshima, Japan carrying the uranium 235 gun-type bomb, named Little Boy. The atomic bomb exploded at 8:16 a.m., in an instant 80,000 to 140,000 people were killed and 100,000 more were seriously injured.

Table of Contents

• The Trinity Test
• Designs of Two Bombs
• Final Preparations
• Why Hiroshima?
• The Order is Given
• Unexpected Opposition
• Delivering Little Boy
• The Bomb Explodes
• Immediate Aftermath
• Instant Confusion
• What Happened
• Infrastructure Damage
• Physical Effects
• Hibakusha Stories
• Hiroshima Today