Atomic Bomb Hiroshima

Color photograph showing damage in Hiroshima some eight months after the atomic bombing of August 6, 1945. March 1946. A few buildings are still standing and some telephone or electricity poles are up. The 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.  Hiroshima, Japan. (Photo By Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)