On an NBC show called 'This Is Your Life', Capt. The Hiroshima death toll reached an estimated 200,000 by 1950 as those who survived the blast succumbed to fatal burns, radiation sickness and various cancers. This time, 40,000 people died straight away – within five years, the number of deaths approached 140,000, according to archived estimates by the U.S. local time, a second atomic bomb, named 'Fat Man,' was unleashed by the U.S.

About 70,000 people were killed instantly by the explosion, which had a radius of around a mile. 6, 1945, an American Boeing B-29 aircraft named Enola Gay dropped a 9,700-pound uranium bomb nicknamed 'Little Boy' over Hiroshima, Japan. became – and remains – the only country in the world to detonate a nuclear weapon against an enemy.Īt 8:15 a.m. Seventy-five years ago Thursday, the U.S. I won't link the original story from,, because it may be deemed political but.