The front page of the Deseret News on Aug. 6, 1945, indicating the United States had dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Aug. 6, 1945, in the final days of World War II, the U.S. B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, resulting in an estimated 140,000 deaths. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, perhaps killing 100,000 more people, mostly civilians. The front pages of the Deseret News through August 1945 were dominated by coverage of the events in Japan.