Opinions differ on this.
The bomb did kill a lot of civilians. However, it was an order of magnitude fewer than the official US Military predictions of the number of Japanese civilians that would have been killed in a conventional invasion, so in a sort of twisted way, the bomb was actually a more humane choice.
The first atomic bomb landed in Switzerland. Most people believe that it landed in Japan but there was actually one before that. >which of course landed in Switzerland
Yes,. One well known example is the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. The explosives in the bomb were placed around the plutonium then exploded to compress the plutonium to the point where nuclear fission started.
There was no atomic bomb called Big Boy. Perhaps you are confusing it with a restaurant chain that bombed :-)The two atomic bombs used in combat were Little Boy & Fat Man, their approximate weights were 9,000 pounds & 10,000 pounds respectively.
No, hydrogen bombs were not dropped on Hiroshima. The atomic bomb "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima by the United States on August 6, 1945, during World War II. Hydrogen bombs are a more powerful type of nuclear weapon that was developed later.
The weapon that ended WW2 was the atomic bomb, which was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on the 6th and 9th of August 1945.
It was dropped by the United States by orders of President Truman over Hiroshima, Japan.
the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki
Yes but in Japan.
The US dropped the atomic bomb onto Japan on August 1945.
The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan ; another on Nagasaki, Japan, 3 days later.
Japan was negotiatin with the Soviet Union as the first atomic bomb was dropped.
On the 6th August 1945 the first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.
The atomic bomb.
Hiroshima, Japan.
hiroshima, Japan
It was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.
little boy and fat man they dropped the newly created atomic bomb on japan