Forecast for Fun. estes park forecast. In general, people love to talk about the weather. In Estes Park, it's no different, except most times they're talking about how amazingly perfect it is. Summer saunters in with average highs in the 70s, very little humidity, and cool evenings that beg you to leave the windows open.
At approximately 8.15am on 6 August 1945 a US B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, instantly killing around 80,000 people. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, causing the deaths of 40,000 more.
Little Boy. The first nuclear weapon used in warfare was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. Little Boy was dropped from a B-29 bomber -- the Enola Gay -- piloted by U.S. Army Air Force Colonel Paul W. Tibbets. The bombardier set the control plugs to arm the 9,700-pound bomb just before it was dropped. When the bomb reached 1,850 feet, a radar echo set off an ordinary explosive inside.