On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

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When the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, temperatures near the fireball soared to several thousand ...

Prior to 1945, nuclear weapons were just an idea that could be discussed in theoretical physics literature. This changed when J.

Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is now a museum exhibit.