On August 6, 1945, with the surprise carried to its target by the B-29 Enola Gay, the United States did the biggest gender reveal in history:
It had a Little Boy.
At 8:15 am, the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, with an equivalent of 15 kilotons of TNT, making The Land Of The Rising Sun become The Land Of The Rising Suns.
The bombing killed approximately 70,000 military personnel and civilians in the city.
Still, Japan did not surrender even after being introduced to the nuclear age the hard way.
It would take a second atomic bombing on August 9 to finally get Japan to surrender and bring World War 2 to an end.
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