Victory in Europe, VE Day May 1945

May 21, 1945 - Germany - A horn blows on VE day, the day Germany surrenders. Nuclear weapons have been delivered only twice in the history of warfare, both in the ending days of World War II; the first bombing was on the morning of August 6th 1945, when the United States dropped a uranium gun-type device code-named Little Boy on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, and the last nuclear bombing occurred three days later; the second bomb was a plutonium implosion-type device code named Fat Man dropped on the city of Nagasaki killing 120, 000 civilians and twice that over time died of nuclear diseases

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Blows Code-named Delivered Diseases Dropped Ending Gun-type Hiroshima Implosion-type Nagasaki Occurred Plutonium Surrenders Twice Uranium

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