![]() ![]() It is doubtful any of those names were known to the young Americans ordered to facilitate those deaths. ![]() The estimated 120,000 Japanese who were killed instantly in the two attacks had names, too, as did the tens of thousands more who died from the fallout in the weeks and months afterwards. So did the second bomb that was dropped three days later on Nagasaki: Fat Man. Army Air Force, flew over the Japanese city of Hiroshima and dropped the world’s first atomic bomb. ![]() 6, 1945, a plane called the Enola Gay, manned by a crew from the U.S. Illustration using an AP photo Seventy-five years ago, on Aug. He went on to write "Hiroshima," a nonfiction account of the dropping of the first atomic bomb, which was published in August 1946 in the New Yorker. John Hersey as a correspondent for TIME magazine in World War II, photographed in 1944 in an unknown location. ![]()
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