Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
August 6โ9, 1945
On 6 and 9 August 1945 the United States detonated two atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing 150,000 to 246,000 people, most civilians: the first and only nuclear weapons used in armed conflict. The Manhattan Project bombs, Little Boy (uranium gun-type) and Fat Man (plutonium implosion-type), were dropped by the 509th Composite Group of the U.S. Army Air Forces.
Battles and events 2
August 6, 1945
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima
Hiroshima
August 9, 1945
Atomic bombing of Nagasaki
Nagasaki
