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Who supported the atomic bomb?
only USA knew of the bomb, The first confirmation of exactly what had happened came sixteen hours later with the announcement of the bombing by the USA
Who made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Jap?
Shortly after President Roosevelt (FDR) passed away, Truman came into office and made this decision.
When was Nuclear warfare created?
Presumably it came part and parcel with the invention of the atomic bomb. Two atomic bombs, dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, caused Japan to surrender to the United States in World War II, and ended the war in the Pacific. To date, these remain the only times a nuclear bomb has been detonated in an attack against another country, rather than as a test.
When was the atom bomb in World War 2 dropped?
On August 6, 1945, a lone B-29 bomber called the Enola Gay flew towards Hiroshima, an important industrial and military center in southwestern Japan. Reaching its target, the Enola Gay released a single atomic weapon it carried. The bomb detonated 2,000 feet above the city, flattening 42 square miles and killing at least 80,000 people outright. Thousands of others soon died from the radiation released by the bomb.
Who created the dirty bomb?
The original concept for something like what is now called a "dirty bomb" was proposed at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project before it was certain that an actual atomic bomb could be made to work. When it was clear the atomic bombs would work, the idea was shelved. As far as I know, nobody has ever actually bothered to build one. Doing so would likely be suicidal for the workers doing the assembly. Note: another unrelated usage of the term "dirty bomb" simply refers to an ordinary hydrogen bomb. This usage came into fashion about 1958 when the US was fascinated with the idea of building "clean bombs" (i.e. reduced fallout hydrogen bombs), mostly for Project Plowshare - the project to use nuclear explosives for construction, mining, and other peaceful uses - but also to try to make high yield nuclear weapons that would produce less public outcry/opposition/protests. The US perfected "clean bomb" designs having as little as 5% of the fallout of ordinary nuclear explosives of the same yield and the USSR did even better than that. "clean bomb" designs have been generally abandoned.
Who came first Hitler or the atomic bomb?
Hitler, he was dead before the Bomb was used in warfare.
Who is the first who invented the atomic bomb?
Leo Szilard. Einstein came up with the idea though, I think.
Who supported the atomic bomb?
only USA knew of the bomb, The first confirmation of exactly what had happened came sixteen hours later with the announcement of the bombing by the USA
What bad came from dropping the first atomic bomb?
Radiation poisoning and genetic mutation was an unexpected result of the Atom bomb, but the threat of future wars destroying the human race is the enduring legacy of the bomb
Why go from atomic energy to a bomb?
Actually the bombs came first, nuclear power plants were not developed until the early 1950s
How atomic bomb came into existence?
The story is long and complicated, too long to do justice to it here. I suggest reading Richard Rhodes' book The Making of the Atomic Bomb.
Why United States built the atomic bomb is it built just in case of japan?
The US started building the atomic bomb because it came to their attention that the Nazi scientists in Germany were already working on it. By the start of 1945, the US did not have a ready atomic bomb. Neither did Germany, although they were much closer to it than the US. Once the Allies began their invasion of Germany, the American and Soviet military hunted down the scientists of the Nazi atomic programme. The US was more successful than the USSR in this (of course, the USSR did not actually have an atomic programme yet). With the cooperation of the German nuclear scientists, the US managed to build a successful bomb, but not before Germany surrendered in May 1945. At this point, relations between the US and the USSR were steadily deteriorating. So to answer your question: 1. the US did not build the bomb 'IN CASE' of Japan - they never suspected that Japan was trying to build one (but they knew for certain that Germany was building a nuclear bomb). So the nuclear programme BEGAN because they feared the Nazis would build a successful one first. 2. When it became certain that the US would not have to use the bomb on Germany, they were still under immense pressure to complete the project because of the money they had spent on it, and because they feared that they would be in another war with the USSR shortly after the war in Europe had ended. Finally, by using the bomb on Japan: 1. They could avoid a long and costly invasion of Japan and end the war in the pacific quickly. 2. They could show off its strength to the USSR, which had become a new and powerful threat.
Why was the end of the war at pearl harbor a bigger issue than the atomic bomb?
The attack at Pearl was the start of the war, not the end. The end came 4 years later with the atomic bomb.
How bad was the atom bomb little boy supposed to damage japan?
It was an atomic bomb. The city was devastated. The damage came from the heat and the radiation.
Where are the materials used to create an atomic bomb come from?
almost all originally came from mines.
Did anybody survive the Hiroshima's atomic bomb?
Yes. About 172,000.The cities population was about 340,000 in 1945. When the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima the death toll came to 168,000.Note: I visited the Atomic Bomb Memorial site in Hiroshima. It is a very sobering experience of what the atomic bomb can do. There is hardly anything left standing in the city at the epicenter of the explosion. People were completely vaporized. Many people died in the explosion, but 10,000's more died afterward because of radiation caused infections.
What country did the first human in orbit come from?
the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, came from the USSR.
