Aircraft

On the morning of August 6th, 1945, three B-29 Superfortresses climbed in formation high above the Isles of Japan. Their mission, to wreak death and destruction on civilization, the likes of which humanity had never seen before, in an effort to bring to a close the most deadly war in human history. 

The power contained within the bomb those men dropped that fateful day conjured the still stirring words of American Theoretical Physicist Robert Oppenheimer, recalling from the Bhagavad-Gita, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

At 8:15 (Tokyo Standard Time) the Enola Gay, the aircraft selected to carry and drop the first nuclear device used in warfare, released its payload over an unsuspecting city of a quarter million people, Hiroshima. 53 seconds later 70,000 souls were immediately incinerated and 69% of the city was demolished, as a fireball hotter than the sun expanded overhead.