In this fashion, the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan can be seen as the first shot of the Cold War. 3 8.7 Enola 5.0 My Giant Watch options 7.8 Hiroshima Storyline The decision to drop the atom bomb, the secrecy surrounding the mission, and the men who flew it. atomic monopoly might offer diplomatic leverage with the Soviets. Enola Gay, the B-29bomber that was used by the United States on August 6, 1945, to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, the first time the explosive. Enola Gay and the Atomic Bombing of Japan 6.9 Likely Stories, Vol. Tibbets, the man who piloted the Enola Gay (named after his mother), and Eleanor Parker as his neglected wife. Truman and many of his advisers hoped that the U.S. government’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima starred Robert Taylor as Paul W. Russian armies were occupying most of Eastern Europe.
The meeting was marked by recriminations and suspicion between the Americans and Soviets. Truman, Russian leader Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill (before being replaced by Clement Attlee) ended just four days before the bombing of Hiroshima. READ MORE: The Hiroshima Bombing Didn't Just End WWII-It Kick-Started the Cold Warīy August 1945, relations between the Soviet Union and the United States had deteriorated badly. Tibbets immediately steered into a 160-degree turn, a maneuver long planned and practiced, to take the bomber away from the explosion.
8:16 a.m.: After a 5.5-mile drop, the bomb detonates 800 feet southeast of the Aioi Bridge. It has been suggested that the second objective was to demonstrate the new weapon of mass destruction to the Soviet Union. > When the bomb was released, the Enola Gay's nose lurched up, the plane freed of a four-and-a-half-ton weight. Enola Gay, at 328 m.p.h., begins steep power dive and right turn to escape blast. Starring: Gregory Harrison, Billy Crystal, Kim Darby, Patrick Duffy, Robert Pine, James Shigeta. First, of course, was to bring the war with Japan to a speedy end and spare American lives. Enola Gay: The Men, The Mission, The Atomic Bomb 1980 DVD (Region 1 - Playable in North America - The US, Canada, Mexico, etc.) Color. In the years since the two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, a number of historians have suggested that the weapons had a two-pronged objective.