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It was called “Little Boy”, a deceptively simple name for what would become one of the most devastating weapons ever used by humankind. At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, where it detonated roughly 1,970 feet (600 meters)...
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