On August 6, 1945, the U.S. B-29 bomber Enola Gay flew over Hiroshima and dropped the atomic weapon called “Little Boy” onto the city. Little Boy exploded at about 8:15am at an altitude of 2,000 feet, above the building now called the “A-Bomb Dome.”

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