The Atomic Bomb, Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On 6th August 1945 a United States B29 bomber plane, the Enola Gay, flew over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. At 8:15 a.m. an atomic bomb was dropped. It exploded with the power of 20,000 tonnes of TNT. It produced a giant mushroom shaped cloud over the city. Anyone within a kilometre of the explosion…
