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Atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima


On this day in 1945, at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world's first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima

80,000 people are killed

35,000 are injured

90,000 buildings in Hiroshima before the bomb was dropped;

28,000 remained after the bombing