... the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the build up to these chilling events , and some information about nuclear weapons in the world today. The test was first set for 3 days earlier, but it had been delayed due to thunderstorms The trinity bomb as it is now called let off an ... more accurate drop, and they would be able to document, and take scientific recordings. At approximately 2:00 on the morning of August 6th, the Enola Gay, which was carrying an atomic bomb (Little Boy), started on the long flight from Tinian. Two observation planes carrying cameras and scientific instruments fo...

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Hiroshima On the morning of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomb entitled Enola Gay soared over the industrialized city of Hiroshima, Japan and released the first atomic bomb; killing approximately eighty thousand citizens. Sixty percent of Hiroshima was destroyed. A second atomic bomb entitled Fat ... in the Pacific. The cold war, nuclear restrictions, nuclear energy, were the result of this first nuclear innovation. Essentially, in the end, it was President Truman's decision to use and test the atomic weaponry on the Japanese cities. Amid the options accessible to him, the atomic bombings attested ...

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... has ever had to make." -President Truman. Their was just one goal that the President was eager to fulfill, to end this war as quickly as possible. Some recommended that a test bomb be dropped on a barren space, but Truman decided that it was unnecessary. The Scientists of this Manhattan project were certain that it would work, and didn't want to risk ... dropping of the bomb to intimidate them. But there has been no evidence of this theory that can support their reasoning. On August 6, 1945, a B-29 "Flying Fortress" named the Enola Gay dropped the uranium bomb that is known as "Little B...

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