On August 6, 1945, at exactly 8:15 AM, Hiroshima was forever changed. The United States dropped the atomic bomb known as “Little Boy” on the Japanese city, unleashing destruction on a scale the world had never seen. Detonating about 600 meters above the ground, the bomb produced a fireball with temperatures soaring over one million degrees Celsius. In mere seconds, everything within a 1.6-kilometer radius was annihilated. Buildings were flattened, fires erupted throughout the city, and tens of t