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Hiroshima - Wikipedia Hiroshima was founded in 1589 as a castle town on the Ōta River delta Following the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Hiroshima rapidly transformed into a major urban center and industrial hub In 1889, Hiroshima officially gained city status
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Causes, Impact Deaths On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima The explosion immediately killed an
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Date, Significance . . . Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, during World War II, American bombing raids on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9, 1945) that marked the first use of atomic weapons in war
The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki The blast wave travels at 984 miles per hour (1583 59 kph) in all directions, demolishing over two-thirds of Hiroshima’s buildings in a massive, expanding firestorm
Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - 1945 - Nuclear Museum The bombing of Hiroshima, codenamed Operation Centerboard I, was approved by Curtis LeMay on August 4, 1945 The B-29 plane that carried Little Boy from Tinian Island in the western Pacific to Hiroshima was known as the Enola Gay, after pilot Paul Tibbets’ mother
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Wikipedia On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively, during World War II The aerial bombings killed 150,000 to 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only uses of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict
Hiroshima | Map, Pictures, Bombing, Facts | Britannica Hiroshima is the capital city of Hiroshima prefecture, southwestern Honshu, Japan It was founded as a castle town in the 16th century and lies at the head of Hiroshima Bay, an embayment of the Inland Sea On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima became the first city in the world to be struck by an atomic bomb