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The bomb exploded about 500 m. (1,625 ft.) above the ground and directly beneath it (the hypocentre) was a suburb of schools, factories, and private houses. The radius of destruction for reinforced concrete buildings was 750 m. (2,437 ft.), greater than at Hiroshima where the blast caused by the bomb was more vertical.
On August 6, 1945 an uranium atomic bomb nicknamed Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima. It was the first time a nuclear bomb had been used in warfare. It exploded 2,000 feet above the city with a blast equal to 15,000 tons of TNT. Three days later a plutonium bomb, labelled Fat Man, landed on Nagasaki.