Which city was bombed first, Hiroshima or Nagasaki?

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Atomic bombing of Hiroshima — atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki A gigantic mushroom cloud rising above Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, after a U.S. aircraft dropped an atomic bomb on the city, immediately killing more than 70,000 people.

Hiroshima was the first city to be bombed. The atomic bomb, known as Little Boy, was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The second atomic bomb, Fat Man, was subsequently dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.123