Atomic_cloud_over_Hiroshima_uranium_atom_bomb_little_boy_Aug6th1945

Nuclear explosion over Hiroshima, on morning of August 6th, 1945, 08h15, photographed from the plane that had dropped the uranium atom bomb dubbed “Little Boy.” The plane had been baptized “Enola Gay,” by the pilot of the bomber, colonel Paul W. Tibbets, after the name of his mother. Tibbets died at age 92 in 2007.

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