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The atomic bombs , Fat Man and Little Boy , were delivered on targets Hiroshima and Nagasaki by two B-29 Super Fortresses , the Enola Gay and Bockscar , originating from the Pacific island of Tinian .

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The bombers that dropped the two atomic bombs on Japan to end WW2 took off from the island of Tinnian, the same island used by many of the bombers of the nightly incendiary bombing raids. The bombs were then released from the planes directly over their target city, as with any other gravity bomb. These bombs were not launched, they were ordinary gravity bombs with a new type of explosive.

The only country in WW2 with missiles that launched was Germany, the V-2 was a IRBM with a conventional high explosive warhead.

The US was very slow to develop missile technology for nuclear weapons in the 1950s as the Air Force generals were all ex-pilots that liked the glamor & prestige of combat flying.

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