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Hiroshima: The moment the US deployed the most powerful weapon known to man
US Army via Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m local time, the world entered the atomic age. The Enola Gay, a B-29 Superfortress bomber, deployed the most powerful weapon then known to man over Hiroshima. The southern Japanese city was “an important army depot and port of embarkation,” but its […]
Hiroshima before the bomb: Pre-WWII footage captures serene city (VIDEO)
Published time: 6 Jul, 2017 17:47 Newly-digitized footage of Hiroshima about 10 years before it was destroyed by a US atomic bomb in August 1945 is now available, thanks to the city’s Peace Memorial Museum. Hiroshima was the first city to be targeted with nuclear weapons when US forces dropped its newly developed atomic bomb […]
Grandson of pilot who nuked Hiroshima now 2nd in command of US long-range bombers
Published time: 5 Mar, 2017 10:04Edited time: 5 Mar, 2017 10:05 The grandson of Paul Tibbets Jr., the pilot who dropped the notorious ‘Little Boy’ bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, killing as many as 90,000 people, has been promoted to second-in-command of the US Air Force’s nuclear-capable long-range bombers. Brigadier General Paul W. Tibbets IV […]
