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Clouds and drifting smoke resulted in Nagasaki b The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber named for Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets, who selected the aircraft while it was still on the assembly line. Enola Gay participated in the second atomic attack as the weather reconnaissance aircraft for the primary target of Kokura. The bomb, code-named 'Little Boy', was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and caused unprecedented destruction. On 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber named for Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets, who selected the aircraft while it was still on the assembly line. The shockwave from the attack completely destroyed 69% of the city's building structures. The 'Little Boy' atomic bomb directly killed 80,000 people when it was first dropped but injuries and radiation effects brought the total number of casualties to 90,000-140,000 by the end of the following six months. Nakajima Hon-machi was 100-700 metres from the centre of the atomic blast that was unleashed on Hiroshima during the Second World War.
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The bomb caused significant destruction to the city of Hiroshima. It exploded with an energy of approximately 15 kilotons of TNT. The Hiroshima bombing was the second artificial nuclear explosion in history, after the Trinity test, and the first uranium-based detonation. It was the first atomic bomb to be used in warfare. 'Little Boy' was the codename for the atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.