Robert Del Tredici - At Work in the Fields of the Bomb

04. The Hiroshima Bomb

This is a duplicate outer shell of the first atomic bomb used on a civilian population. Ten and a half feet long, 9, 700 pounds, nicknamd "Little Boy," it completely destroyed the city of Hiroshima. Smithsonian Air and Space Museum exhibit: "The Social impact of Flight," Washington, D.C. June 25, 1981.

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