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Guam Tinian Iwo Jima Hiroshima Tokyo Nagasaki: bombed...
...BLAST The Enola Gay dropped the bomb at 8:15:17 a.m. Forty-three seconds later, most of Hiroshima was gone...
...they turned for home and saw the utter destruction of Hiroshima, the men inside the Enola Gay were conflicted. "The war's over," one exulted. "My God, what have we done?" asked co-pilot Robert Lewis. The war was over eight days later, but the threat of nuclear annihilation was just beginning...
...small explosive propelled a uranium "bullet" down a 6-ft. (1.8-m) barrel into a uranium core, triggering nuclear fission. The bomb never hit the ground. To maximize the damage, a radar proximity fuse in the tail detonated the bomb 1,900 ft. (580 m) above Hiroshima...
...Hiroshima Archive Collection TIME's Hiroshima reporting from the aftermath of the bombing and over the past 60 years