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Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the US B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay" Facts

• What was the name of the US Army Air Force B 29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki?

Bockscar, sometimes called Bock's Car, is the name of the United States Army Air Forces B-29 bomber that dropped a Fat Man nuclear weapon over the Japanese city of Nagasaki during World War II in the second – and last – nuclear attack in history.

• What happened to the pilot who dropped the atomic bomb?

Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (23 February 1915 – 1 November 2007) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. He is best known as the pilot who flew the Enola Gay (named after his mother) when it dropped Little Boy, the first of two atomic bombs used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

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US drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki. Facts

• How many civilians were killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Over the next two to four months, the acute effects of the atomic bombings killed 90,000–146,000 people in Hiroshima and 39,000–80,000 people in Nagasaki; roughly half of the deaths in each city occurred on the first day.

• USSR, most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, yield of 50 megatons, (50 million tons of tnt).

How heavy was fat man?

Fat Man
Weight	10,300 pounds (4,670 kg)
Length	128 inches (3.3 m)
Diameter	60 inches (1.5 m)
Filling	Plutonium Plutonium is a dense silvery radioactive metal of the actinide series, used as a fuel in nuclear reactors and as an explosive in nuclear fission weapons. Plutonium only occurs in trace amounts in nature but is manufactured in nuclear reactors from uranium-238.