Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

On 6th August 1945, American B-29 bomber plane Enola Gay (named after the pilot's mother) dropped an atomic bomb named Little Boy on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. This was done to force the Japanese into surrendering when conventional weapons failed and Hiroshima was chosen to as the harbour city was part of Japan's supply chain. Those who were living in the city at the time witnessed a blinding flash followed by a resounding boom. The blast was so intense that the people who didn't survive the blast were incinerated on the spot, leaving nothing but ghostly silhouettes. Although it was atomic bomb, the city was well as Nagasaki (which another atomic bomb named Fat Man) was dropped on are still liveable and a domed building exhibition building has now been dedicated as a peace memorial. The Japanese surrendered on 15 August 1945 and had the Tokyo Olympics not been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the closing ceremony would've taken place on 9th August 2020, the day Nagasaki was bombed 75 years prior.