Remembrance Day today, August 6, 2020, as it marks the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb in human history. It was 8:15 (Japan time) when the 'Little Boy' atomic bomb leveled Hiroshima.
The bomb claimed the lives of approximately 140,000 people, while 69% of the buildings were completely destroyed. Three days later, a second American atomic bomb leveled the Japanese city of Nagasaki, killing 74,000 people, both from the nuclear explosion and from the fallout from radiation. A uranium-235 type bomb was used for the first nuclear attack in human history.
The strength of the explosion was not known in advance. The drop was made by Lt. Col. Paul Tibbetts, commander of a B-29 aircraft he had nicknamed "Enola Gay" after his mother. About 70,000 people were killed on the spot, while many more died later or suffered significant health damage from the radiation.
SOURCE:SPUTNIK