An extract from Mark Hooper ’s ‘Great British Tree Biography’ - published yesterday by Pavilion - with illustration by Amy Grimes.Īt 8.15am local time on Monday 6 August 1945, a 4,400kg (9,700lb) uranium-enriched gun-type atom bomb, nicknamed Little Boy, was dropped from the USAAF Boeing B-29 bomber Enola Gay above Hiroshima, Japan.
