USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 AM. A B-29 dropped the bomb from 31, 000 feet. The bomb exploded about 1, 500 feet above the city with a force of 15, 000 tons of TNT.

Detailed explanation-2: -When were the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? The first atomic bomb, named Little Boy, was dropped on Hiroshima from the Enola Gay, a B-29 bomber, at 8:15 AM on August 6, 1945. The second bomb, named Fat Man, was dropped on Nagasaki from the Bockscar, also a B-29 bomber, at 11:02 AM on August 9, 1945.

Detailed explanation-3: -The plane dropped the bomb-known as “Little Boy”-by parachute at 8:15 in the morning, and it exploded 2, 000 feet above Hiroshima in a blast equal to 12-15, 000 tons of TNT, destroying five square miles of the city.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.