The Attack on Hiroshima

      On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 am local time, the world had entered the atomic age. The United States was the first and only nation to use the atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The pilot that was flying the plane was Colonel Paul Tibbets. The name of the atomic bomb was the Little Boy. The Enola Gay, a B-29 superfortress bomber, deployed the most powerful weapon known to man over Hiroshima.

 

There were only three people on Enola Gay who knew what the real mission was that day.The atomic bomb was 10 ft long and weighed around 10,000 pounds.The Little Boy bomb that had dropped on Hiroshima was made of highly enriched uranium-235. It detonated about 1,750 feet above the ground. President S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade japan would result in a horrific American casualties, ordered  that the new weapon would be used to bring the war to an end. Japan announced its surrender to Allied forces on August 15.

 

Hiroshima was chosen because it had not been targeted during the U.S. Air Forces conventional bombing raids on Japan and was therefore regarded as being a suitable place to test the effects of the atomic bomb. The U.S. dropped the bomb after obtaining the constant of the United Kingdom, as required by Quebec Agreement. The japanese army planned to have every man, women and child to fight America to the death Kamikaze style even after Hiroshima. They even attempted a coup when the Emperor gave word to surrender. When the bomb had dropped it instantly killed 80,000, a couple days after people had died from the radiation poisoning and severe burns. The total death roll was estimated at between 150,000 and 190,000. When the atomic bomb exploded, it instantly destroyed about 5 miles of Hiroshima. The attack on Hiroshima was very deadly to a lot of people.

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