In an instant when the first bomb was dropped, tens of thousands of residents of Hiroshima, Japan were killed by “Little Boy,” the code name for the first atomic bomb used in warfare in world history. Two American atomic bombs ended World War II in August 1945, and the devastation will be forever remembered. Hancock, an archives technician at the National Archives at College Park, MD.
August 6, 2020, marks the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb.
