WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -At 8.15 on the morning of 6th August 1945, the Japanese city of Hiroshima was devastated by the first atomic bomb to be used as a weapon of war. The bomb, nicknamed ‘Little Boy’, was dropped from the USAAF B29 bomber ‘Enola Gay’ and exploded some 1, 800 feet above the city.

Detailed explanation-3: -The world’s first nuclear explosion occurred on July 16, 1945, when a plutonium implosion device was tested at a site located 210 miles south of Los Alamos, New Mexico, on the plains of the Alamogordo Bombing Range, known as the Jornada del Muerto. The code name for the test was “Trinity."

Detailed explanation-4: -The bomb exploded with the force of more than 15, 000 tons of TNT directly over a surgical clinic, 500 feet from the Aioi Bridge.

Detailed explanation-5: -Little Boy was the type of atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 during World War II, making it the first nuclear weapon used in warfare.