Seventy years ago, the US Air Force's "Enola Gay" B-29 Superfortress bomber dropped a 15-kiloton nuclear bomb, code-named Little Boy, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The blast, which was the ...

These are perfect conditions for dropping the bomb, nicknamed 'Little Boy'. Farrell relays the report to Washington: the bomb will be dropped on August 6. Estimated take off time 02.45.

In the hold was an experimental bomb, codenamed Little Boy. The target: Hiroshima. In Hiroshima the air raid sirens had sounded twice that morning already. On both occasions the all clear followed ...

An interactive map created by nuclearsecrecy.com paints a terrifying picture of the catastrophic damage that would be inflicted on Houston if a nuclear bomb were to be detonated within its ...

At 8.15 a.m. on 6 August 1945, a B-29 bomber called Enola Gay dropped ‘Little Boy’ over Hiroshima. The thermal radiation from ...

It was carrying a 9,700 top-secret bomb named Little Boy. Its pilot was Paul W. Tibbets Jr., who led a crew of 12 men on a mission that would change the history of the world. The plane had been ...