Today in History: Hiroshima bombed (Watch in pics)

New Delhi, Aug 6: It has been 69 years now when during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6th of August 1945.The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people. Tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, on August 9, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan's Emperor Hirohito announced his country's unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of "a new and most cruel bomb." The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were tragedies of the greatest magnitude. Even now many victims of the violence of atomic weapons are still suffering, physically, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.The bombings were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in 1945. These two events represent the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date. The war in Europe ended when Nazi Germany signed its instrument of surrender on 8 May, but the Pacific War continued. Together with the United Kingdom and the Republic of China, the United States called for a surrender of Japan in the Potsdam Declaration on 26 July 1945, threatening Japan with "prompt and utter destruction". The Japanese government ignored this ultimatum, and the United States deployed two nuclear weapons developed by the Manhattan Project. American airmen dropped Little Boy on the city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, followed by Fat Man over Nagasaki on 9 August. Here are the pics of the bombing and afterwards effect: 1. It was the first atomic bomb to be used as a weapon.2.The mushroom clouds from the 1945 atomic bombings over Hiroshima.3.A tall column of smoke billows 20,000 feet above Hiroshima.4.The B-29 superfortress Enola Gay lands at its base after its historic atomic bombing mission over Hiroshima.5.Smoke lingers over this scene of destruction in Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 7, 1945, a day after the explosion.6.A residential area in Hiroshima, 1200-meters (1312-yards) from the epicenter, in mid-August 1945, several days after the bombing.7.About one month after the dropping of the first atomic bomb.8.Desolated area, with only some buildings left standing, is what was left of Hiroshima, Japan.9. Aerial view of the Japanese city of Hiroshima, Sept. 5, 1945.10. Twisted metal and rubble marks what once was Hiroshima, Japan's most industrialized city, seen some time after the atom bomb was dropped here.