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- August 6, 1945, during World War 2.
- Bomb launched by US on Japan
- 1st deployed atomic bomb
- Killed an estimate of 202,000
- Bomb was deployed to end war
- Ordered by president Harry Truman
- American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb that day.
- The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of of people would later die of radiation exposure.
- Japan’s Emperor thousands hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb.”
- Manhattan project was the project that designed that bombs that we launched on Hiroshima and Nagasaki