Nuclear bombs dropped on Japan 75 years ago to end World War II
The city of Hiroshima in western Japan on Thursday marks the 75th anniversary of the world’s first nuclear attack.
The U.S. dropped the uranium bomb nicknamed Little Boy at 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945, destroying the city and killing 140,000 people, most of them civilians.
Three days later on Aug. 9, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki in southern Japan, killing another 70,000. Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, ending World War II and, more broadly, an onslaught of aggression against its Asian neighbors that had lasted nearly half a century.