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August 6, 1945. American airmen dropped an atomic bomb â codename Little Boy â on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on this date. Three days later, on August 9, they followed it by dropping another atomic bomb, called Fat Man, over Nagasaki. It was the final large-scale wartime act of World War II.
For a detailed timeline of the bombings, please see Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombing Timeline. On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped its first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The bomb was known as Little Boy, a uranium gun-type bomb that exploded with about thirteen kilotons of force. At the time of the bombing, Hiroshima was home to 280,000-290,000 civilians as well as 43,000 soldiers. Between 90,000 and 166,000 people are believed to have died from the bomb in the four-month period following the explosion.