Atomic Bombs

6 August 1945

About 400 yds off the aioi bridge, its intended AP. Also the bomb hit nothing physically, it was an airburst at about 1500 feet altitude triggered by radar altimeters.

The atomic bomb was developed by a team of scientists led by J. Robert Oppenheimer as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II. Oppenheimer is often credited as the "father of the atomic bomb" due to his central role in its creation.

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'Little Boy' the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima weighed 8,900 pounds whereas 'Fat Man' , the atomic weapon used on Nagasaki weighed 10,200 pounds .

The mathematical formula for the energy produced by an atomic bomb is E=mc^2, where E is energy, m is mass, and c is the speed of light. This formula, derived by Albert Einstein, explains the conversion of mass into energy in nuclear reactions, such as those that occur in atomic bombs.

After 28 years, half of the 2.5 grams (1.25 grams) would remain. After another 28 years (56 years total), only 0.625 grams would remain, and so on. The amount of the radioactive element left can be calculated using the formula: remaining amount = initial amount * (1/2)^(years/half-life), where the initial amount is 2.5 grams and the years is the given time.

Atomic bombs are a perfect example of a nuclear reaction that causes massive destruction. Atom bombs have a power equivalent to millions of tons of ordinary explosive. The temperatures of fusion nuclear explosions can go up into the millions of kelvin.

The atomic bomb tested at the Trinity test site in New Mexico during World War II was a plutonium-based implosion-type bomb known as "Gadget." This test marked the first detonation of a nuclear weapon.

A hydrogen bomb is a fusion nuclear weapon, and the "regular" atomic bomb is a fission one. Both are an example of an "atomic bomb" in the general sense. But we know what you're asking, and here's the answer. In a fission weapon, subcritical masses of fissile material (usually plutonium) are driven together with conventional explosives to cause criticality, supercriticality and the blast. In a hydrogen bomb, the only way to get things hot enough for fusion to begin to occur is by virtue of the heat generated by a fission weapon. A fission blast will, if things are set up correctly, set off a fusion blast. Big, big, bigboom! That's the long and short of it. To build a hydrogen (fusion) weapon, you have to build a fission bomb "around" or "up against" components to cause fusion to occur in the heat of the fission reaction when that fission bomb goes off. Our sun is a gigantic fusion machine. It is similar to a hydrogen bomb in that both fuse hydrogen into helium. On the sun, it happens all the time in a continuous event. Here on earth, it's a one-shot affair and a massive boom!

An atomic bomb is made up from the inside out by:

a plutonium pit(ball) about the sized as a honeydew melon.

surrounded by about 2 inches of high explosive on all sides.

This is triggered in a USA bomb by an intricate series of safety triggers

that prevent accidental explosion by altitude triggers, timers, and arming triggers.

Excess nuclear binding energy supplied by the strong nuclear force.

No. The first WW2 atomic bomb was rated in terms of Kilo-tons and was a fission explosion. The largest bombs developed during the Cold War was a hydrogen bomb using fussion and it was rated in the Mega-ton or equivalent to Million of tons of TNT. Of course, modern bombs have been designed with low kilo-ton power that can be used as a tactical weapon---meaning it is designed to destroy a local area and not an entire city. Actually, being a rocket scientist myself, Jason Knox, i believe that the most powerful atomic bomb is the current 254-U system that has a range of 200 miles radius and can obliterate the scene that was intended.

The atomic bomb typically contains enriched uranium or plutonium as the fissionable material, along with conventional explosives to trigger the nuclear chain reaction. When detonated, these elements undergo a rapid chain reaction, releasing a massive amount of energy in the form of heat, blast, and radiation.

Follow the link to the site below. It is the A-Bomb WWW museum. According to the data on this site the heat beneath the explosion center rose to approximately 7,000 degree F. For more info on the A-bomb go to the webpage listed below http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/data.html

An atomic bomb is an explosive device that obtains its energy from the atomic nucleus. it is equally valid to call it a nuclear bomb, and it can obtain this energy through either of the processes of fission and/or fusion. There are many ways an atomic bomb can be delivered to its target: aircraft, unguided rocket, guided missile, cruise missile, torpedo, depth charge, hand carried, landmine (the target comes to it), artillery shell, jeep/tripod mounted bazooka, etc. Atomic bombs were also proposed and tested for several peaceful uses: blasting for construction (e.g. highways, railroads, canals), oil industry (e.g. natural gas extraction, oil extraction from tar sands), spacecraft propulsion (Project Orion 1958 to 1963), etc.

A nuclear missile usually means a guided missile with an atomic bomb (aka warhead) as its payload, the guided missile is the means of delivering that atomic bomb to its target. However it is also possible in some circumstances to interpret nuclear missile as equivalent to nuclear rocket. A nuclear rocket uses a nuclear reactor to heat a gas (e.g. hydrogen) to propel the rocket, as usually visualized the payload of a nuclear rocket is a deep space probe of some kind (but it could just as easily be a manned spacecraft or an atomic bomb).

Depends on the size of the charge, how close you are to the blast, what type of bomb it it and where it goes off. If you're at ground zero you'll simply evaporate, then you get burns + radiation, then only radiation, then nothing. Oh, you might get hit by whatever shrapnel the blast might throw around too.

The bomb was not made in 1939. It was made in 1945 at the end of WW2. Oppenheimer did not make the bomb, a very large group of scientists and technicians made the bomb. Oppenheimer was the civilian head of the group. That is analogous to saying that a single person invented the rocket that took men to the moon.

Positives: The atomic bomb ended World War II by forcing Japan to surrender, saving potentially millions of lives that would have been lost in a full-scale invasion. It also demonstrated the power of nuclear weapons, potentially deterring future conflicts between major powers.

Negatives: The atomic bomb caused immense destruction and loss of life in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, leading to long-term physical and psychological effects on survivors. It also raised ethical concerns about the use of such a devastating weapon and sparked a nuclear arms race during the Cold War.

The plutonium used in the first atomic weapon (the Trinity Device) was processed at the Hanford Reservation site in Washington State.

The uranium used in the first actual bomb (Little Man, dropped on Hiroshima), was refined at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

There was a race that involved US, UK, and Canada during World War II; they wanted to build an atomic bomb in fear that Nazi Germany would create them first. This project was called the Manhattan Project (1942 to 1946), the project was under the command of Major General Leslie R. Groves Jr. of the US Army Corps of Engineers. Einstein, Szilard, Fermi, and President Roosevlet were main people involved in this project.

No, Albert Einstein did not invent the atomic bomb. The atomic bomb was developed as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II by a team of scientists, including J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and others. Einstein's role was limited to signing a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt urging research into nuclear weapons.

It was known that there had been other diplomatic moves, made previously by Japanese emissaries through neutral nations, which intimated that Japan might surrender under certain terms that were unacceptable to America and its allies. But when nothing definitive was heard from the Japanese, plans proceeded to drop the second atomic bomb. The second mission was designated 'Special Mission No. 16.' A B-29 would carry 'Fat Man,' heavier than Little Boy and more complex. The primary target was Kokura. The secondary target was Nagasaki.