PRESENTATION OUTLINE
On the morning of 6 August 1945 an American B-29 bomber, the 'Enola Gay', dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot, nicknamed the B-29 the "Enola Gay" after his mother.
The bomb was dropped by parachute and exploded 580m above the ground.
The blast destroyed more than ten square kilometres of the city.
Between 60,000 and 80,000 people were killed instantly.
The heat from the bomb was so intense that some people simply vanished in the explosion.
The final death toll was calculated at 135,000.
