<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" id="mwqA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World War II">World War II</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima" id="mwqQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hiroshima">Hiroshima</a>, Japan is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki" id="mwqg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki">devastated</a> when the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon" id="mwqw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nuclear weapon">atomic bomb</a> "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy" id="mwrA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Little Boy">Little Boy</a>" is dropped by the United States <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-29_Superfortress" id="mwrQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Boeing B-29 Superfortress">B-29</a> <i id="mwrg"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enola_Gay" id="mwrw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Enola Gay">Enola Gay</a></i>. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_radiation_syndrome" id="mwsA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Acute radiation syndrome">radiation poisoning</a>.