![]() ![]() At precisely 8.15 that morning the bomb bays of one of them called the “Enola Gay” opened, and a Uranium 235 fission weapon code-named “Little Boy” was let loose. On 6 August 1945, three American B-29 Superfortress bombers flew nearly 10km above the city. This year marks the 77th anniversary of the first atom bomb in history dropped on Hiroshima. For the first time in decades, the risk of a nuclear holocaust has become threateningly real again. IĪlmost daily now there is talk of Russia using ‘tactical’ nuclear weapons should Vladimir Putin feel he is losing the war in Ukraine. It reminded me that I wrote this opinion piece for The Daily Maverick on 2 August 2022 about the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. I recently watched the fascinating movie Oppenheimer about Robert Oppenheimer, "the father of the atomic bomb" and his direction of the Manhattan Project.
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