Today in History : Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima

On this date, August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber nicknamed Enola Gayand piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets, commander of the 509th Composite Group,  dropped the world's first Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima. The bomb, the first of its kind, was so powerful that  almost 90% of the buildings were destroyed. An estimated 80,000 people were instantly killed, 35,000 injured and another 60,000 , as a result of radiation,were dead in the weeks to come.

The yield of the explosion was later estimated at 15 kilotons (the equivalent of 15,000 tons of TNT). The devastation of Hiroshima. however, did not convinced the Japanese to surrender.