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If you are asking specifically about the two bombs dropped on Japan in WW2, they were fuzed for airburst, so they did not hit the ground. Both exploded between 1500 ft & 2000 ft altitude. Airburst was selected to maximize blast & thermal flash damage effects area.

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Where did testing of the atomic bomb take place?

The atomic bomb was tested at the Trinity site in Alamogordo, New Mexico in 1945.


How long did it take to make the atomic bombs used in World War 2?

The US was capable of producing 3 atomic bombs a month at the end of WW2. This would suggest it took a bit over a week to make each bomb kit. However it isn't that simple, the 3 bomb per month bottleneck was the Hanford plutonium production reactors: each of the 3 reactors could make 1 bomb worth (6.2 kg) of plutonium a month and they ran in parallel.


What causes an atomic bomb not to explode immediately?

A timer controlling when neutrons willl be lanuched and absorbed by the atom bomb...therefore contolling when a critical mass will be reached and when a nuclear raection will take place leading up to the explosion. <22> The nator geniuzzz <22>


How long does it take for a nuclear bomb to clear up?

That is complicated:Depends on yield and height/depth of burst.Depends on several features of bomb design.Depends on halflives of radiological contaminants produced.Depends on decontamination effort attempted and degree of success.Depends on weather.


How long does it take an atomic bomb to explode?

The Hiroshima MK-I Littleboy bomb took a few 10s of milliseconds from igniting the cordite to completion of the fission explosion, most of this was the time for the bullet to travel to the target. Once the bullet and target were together the fission explosion itself completed in less than 20 microseconds. Expansion of the fireball to full size took roughly 1 second. The rise of the mushroom cloud might have taken a couple minutes, but the explosion itself was over long before that.The Nagasaki MK-III Fatman bomb was much faster, total time from firing the 32 detonators on the 32 lenses to completion of the fission explosion was about 1 millisecond, most of this was the time for the explosive lenses to create an implosion and compress the plutonium core. Once the core was compressed the fission explosion itself completed in roughly 5 microseconds. Expansion of fireball and rise of mushroom cloud took about the same time as at Hiroshima, but again the explosion itself was long over.Chemical explosions take on the order of milliseconds, nuclear explosions take on the order of microseconds. Explosions are FAST!

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How long did it take America to perfect the atomic bomb?

See: Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki


How long the atomic bomb take to make?

The US were working on the bomb since 1941 up to 1945 when the first bomb tested.


How long does it take to get from the Eiffel tower to euro Disney?

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How long did it take for atomic bomb to land?

The first atomic bomb was launched in 1945, by the US. It incinerated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan during WWII The above is half true. That was the first time an atomic bomb was used in war, but the first atomic bomb was detonated at the the Trinity Site in White Sands Missile Range, on July 16, 1945.


How long does it take for the radiation to disappear from an area that has been effected by an atomic bomb?

decades


How long does it take to an atomic bomb to destroy a city?

It takes less than a minute.


How long did it take for the bomb fat boy to drop?

See: Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki


Can a atomic bomb take out a country?

yes


When and where did the atomic bomb take place?

in russia in 2007


Where did testing of the atomic bomb take place?

The atomic bomb was tested at the Trinity site in Alamogordo, New Mexico in 1945.


Why did it one day to create the atomic bomb?

It didn't take 1 day to make the atomic bomb, it took most of WW2 for the US to create it with testings.


How many sticks of dynamite did it take to make the atomic bomb?

I can't tell if you're trying to make a joke or not. There were no "sticks of dynamite" used in the atomic bomb.