Littleboy (United States)

When

5 Aug 1945

Kind

Nuclear attack

Yield (kt)

15

Where

Hiroshima

Coordinates

34.23° N, 132.27° E

Yield kt

15

Type

airdrop

Purpose

wartime use

Reported by

DOE

1945 attacks in Japan during WWII

On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively, during the final days of World War II. The aerial bombings killed 150,000 to 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the first and only uses of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.

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