where did the us drop the atomic bomb

The United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. These remain the only wartime uses of nuclear weapons in history.

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• On 6 August 1945, a U.S. B-29 bomber named Enola Gay dropped the uranium bomb “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, in western Honshu, Japan. The explosion devastated the city and killed tens of thousands of people instantly, with many more dying later from injuries and radiation.

• On 9 August 1945, a second B-29 dropped the plutonium bomb “Fat Man” on Nagasaki, on Japan’s Kyushu island. This attack also caused massive destruction and tens of thousands of deaths, both immediately and in the following months.

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