1. Manhatten Project
On the morning of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay flew over the industrial city of Hiroshima, Japan and dropped the first atomic bomb ever. ... Another type of atomic bomb was also constructed using the synthetic element plutonium. ... The Hiroshima model is known as a gun-barrel-type atomic bomb. ... The fissionable material used in the Nagasaki bomb was plutonium 239. ... The Nagasaki model is known as an implosion-type atomic bomb. ...
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