HIROSHIMA

WHO

• The atomic bombings on Japan were conducted by the United States
• People living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were effected
• The driver of the plane that dropped the bomb was Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr.

WHAT

• The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States 
• during the final stages of World War II in August 1945
• The two bombings were the first and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in wartime.

WHEN

• 2:45 a.m. on Monday, August 6, 1945
• World War II

WHERE

• Took off from Tinian
• Tinian is North Pacific island in the Marianas
• It is 1,500 miles south of Japan.

Effects

• Hiroshima's population has been estimated at 350,000
• it was the equivalent to 20000 tons of TNT
•  approximately 70,000 died immediately from the explosion
•  another 70,000 died from radiation within five years.
• the explosion flattened the city

THE BOMB

• The bomb was called 'Little Boy'
• Dropped by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay
•  The Little Boy was a development of the unsuccessful Thin Man nuclear bomb
• Little Boy was the codename

Strange facts

• The US Airforce before dropping the A-bomb, dropped pamphlets in Hiroshima warning people of the bombing
• For decades, the mayor of Hiroshima wrote letters of protest , as a plea to end the use of nuclear weapons. 
• The oleander was the first thing to bloom again after the explosion of the atomic bomb.
• The oleander is the official flower of the city of Hiroshima

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