Saturday, August 30, 2025

On August 6, 1945, just before the end of World War II, this B-29 bomber dropped and detonated the world's first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima. It was named Enola Gay after the mother of its pilot, Paul Tibbets.It is on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia, a satellite facility of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

 

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The boy was admitted to a hospital in Nagasaki after the atomic bombing. Even five months after the explosion on August 9, 1945, he was still suffering from severe burns and keloids (Bring Back the Human Being, 1982).

    The boy was admitted to a hospital in Nagasaki after the atomic bombing. Even five months after the explosion on August 9, 1945, he suff...