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PM Of India Pays Homage To Victims Of “Little Boy”Over Hiroshima During W W II

Aug. 06 Defence, Murder, World Comments

[New Delhi] PM Of India Pays Homage To Victims Of “Little Boy” Over Hiroshima During W W II
PM Narendra Modi Tweeted
” My homage to all those who lost their lives in Hiroshima. The bombings remind us of the horrors of war & their effect on humanity”.
On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., the nuclear bomb “Little Boy” was dropped on Hiroshima by an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, flown by Colonel Paul Tibbets, directly killing an estimated 80,000 people. By the end of the year, injury and radiation brought the total number of deaths to 90,000–166,000. The population before the bombing was around 340,000 to 350,000. Approximately 70% of the city’s buildings were destroyed, and another 7% severely damaged.the largest island of Japan. It is best known as the first city in history to be targeted by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped an atomic bomb on the city at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, near the end of World War II
The city’s name,means “Wide Island” in Japanese.