During his time in Posdam, the President received secret word that the atomic bomb had been successfully tested. ... On August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay left the Pacific island of Tinian to bomb the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets, named the Enola Gay after his mother. ... The Enola Gay carried the "Little Boy" and 7,600 gallons of fuel that made it very heavy. ... The co-pilot of the Enola Gay recalled: "I don't believe anyone ever expected to look at a sight quite like that. ...

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Atomic bombs were the first nuclear weapons to be developed, tested, and used. ... On July 16, 1945, Oppenheimer and Groves' units conducted a firing test of the lethal weapon in the New Mexico desert (Oppenheimer). ... The Trinity test (the code name for the test of the first atomic bomb), on July 16, 1945, was an amazing success (Kimball). ... Scientists and technicians loaded and secured the bomb on the Enola Gay. ... Atomic bombs were the first nuclear weapons to be developed, tested, and used. ...

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On August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb, "little boy" on Hiroshima, Japan. ... If Japan was almost beaten by August 1945, many say that the reason the U.S. dropped the bomb was simply to test it on living humans. Aside from the ground test in the New Mexico desert, no one knew what destruction atomic weapons were capable of. ... One could wonder if the motive behind this second attack was similar to the first; the only difference being that the bomb to be "tested" this time was considerably more powerful. ... For example, the atomic bomb was tested in Trinity Si...

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There was a debate at Los Alamos about whether to test the new plutonium 'implosion' bomb before it was actually dropped. ... Kistiakowsky and Oppenheimer both argued for such a test, but initially Groves was opposed. He was afraid that if the test failed, the precious plutonium would be scattered all across the countryside."... Hanford's plutonium production was increasing fast enough so that a test would cause little delay in time. ... At 0815 hours the bomb was dropped from the Enola Gay. ...

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Hiroshima On the morning of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomb entitled Enola Gay soared over the industrialized city of Hiroshima, Japan and released the first atomic bomb; killing approximately eighty thousand citizens. ... Essentially, in the end, it was President Truman's decision to use and test the atomic weaponry on the Japanese cities. ...

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