Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 70th anniversary of first atomic bomb in warfare

On August 6, 1945 US bomber B-29 Enola Gay dropped a four-tonne uranium bomb codenamed Little Boy on Hiroshima. The explosion instantly killed an estimated 70,000 to 100,000 people. The overall number of fatalities exceeded 140,000. Three days later, in the morning of August 9, 1945 another B-29 bomber dropped a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki, killing 70,000 and razing the city to the ground. Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the first atomic bomb was dropped by the United States over the Japanese cities – in photo gallery by TASS.