And after this new weapon was tested on July 16, 1945, at Alamogordo, it was decided that this new weapon would be used against the Japanese instead of the invasions. ... As scheduled, the Enola Gay took off of the Tinian runway at 2:45 am, sharp, and began its course over the Black Sea. ... At 7:25 am, Tibbets (pilot of the Enola Gay) received a coded message from the weather planes that the cloud cover over their selected target, Hiroshima, was minimal. ... At exactly 8:16:02 am, Hiroshima time, the bomb exploded over the city. ... But wherever I walked I met these people Many of them died a...

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Eventually, through about two months of construction at the Jornado del Muerto desert in central New Mexico, codenamed "Trinity" by Oppenheimer, the atomic implosion bomb was ready to test in July of 1945. ... After the successful test at Trinity, it was then time to adapt the weapon for a practical use, actually converting it into a bomb. ... The B-29 was readied for bombing, and Colonel Tibbets had painted and named the plane the Enola Gay, his mother's maiden name. ... The Enola Gay approached Hiroshima and dropped its colossal weapon. ... He and I are in accord. ...

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THE ATOMIC BOMB CONTENTS I. ... Testing and Bombing A. ... At last it was time for the testing and bombing, to see if all the hard work had paid off. ... Robert Oppenheimer, one of the inventors of the atomic bomb, quoted a fragment from Bhagavad Gita, "I am become death, the destroyer of the worlds(Larsen 94)." ... Aioi bridge was set as the target for the bomb, and at 0815 hours, the bomb was dropped from the war plane, the Enola Gay. ...

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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. ... "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." ... At 0815 hours the bomb was dropped from the Enola Gay. ...

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On the morning of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay flew over the industrial city of Hiroshima, Japan and dropped the first atomic bomb ever. ... I became interested in this topic because of my interest in history. It seemed an appropriate topic because I am presently studying World War 2 in my history Class. ... FDR died on April 12, three months before the first successful Trinity test (Beyer 56). ... I enjoyed researching the topic and learned a lot from my readings. ...

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