TOKYO: Japan this week marks 80 years since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II.
The first on August 6, 1945 killed around 140,000 people in Hiroshima and three days later another 74,000 perished in Nagasaki.
Here are some facts about the devastating attacks:
The first atomic bomb was dropped on the western city of Hiroshima by the US bomber Enola Gay, nicknamed “Little Boy.”
It detonated about 600 meters from the ground, with a force equivalent to 15,000 tons of TNT.
