On This Day - What happened 6 August 1945 AD

On August 6, 1945, the U.S. Army Air Forces detonated a uranium gun-type fission bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

The United States and the Soviet Union put an end to the war by attacking the Japanese with a new weapon (on the United States' part) On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb used in combat on Hiroshima, killing tens of thousands and leveling the city.

Hiroshima was bombed on August 6.

The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945.