Atomic Bombs

The United States, Russia, China, Britain, France, India, Pakistan, North Korea and, although they never admit it, in all probability, Israel.

This varies with design. The lightest is in the range of 50 pounds, the heaviest was over 500 tons. Exact weights for many devices are typically classified.

The 3 devices exploded in ww2 weighed roughly 5 tons each.

to end world war 2

Fear of loss of face.

The atomic bomb developed in the Manhattan Project was a powerful nuclear weapon that harnessed the energy released by splitting atoms through a process called nuclear fission. The bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945, known as "Little Boy," used uranium-235, while the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, known as "Fat Man," used plutonium-239. These bombs caused immense destruction and casualties, leading to the end of World War II.

This was a B-29 code-named Bock"s Car. For all intents and purposes similar to the Enola Gay, also a B-29. The latter craft dropped a different type of atomic bomb, a Plutonium bomb with implosion type (Blows inward) fuses strapped around the perimeter. owing to its girth, this type of bomb was called (Fat Man). The more slender projectile dropped on Hiroshima was the (Little Boy) type. the proposed usage of the code name (Thin Man, thought to be poking fun at FDR, then recently deceased) was not used. Bombs away! but remember, let he among you who has done no wrong, release the next atomic bomb!-Confucius say. _________________________________________________________- It is ironic that Fat Man had more impact than Little Boy on the Japanese. Although the damage was less, it still wrecked the city enough to convince Japan that the war was over. Many know the name of Enola Gay, but only a few know the name of of Bock's Car. Kokura was the primary target for the second A-bombing, but it was spared by bad weather, so Nagasaki was bombed instead. The US did not have a third A-bomb built, but Japan did not know that. * Bock's Car was not a code name. It was a bomber name given to the B-29 because the pilot was Captain Bock. The Enola Gay was flown by Colonel Tibbets and named after his mother. US bombers in World War 2 were given unofficial names. * The B-29 The Great Artiste accompanied Enola Gay on the Hiroshima bombing, flown by Major Sweeney. For Nagasaki, The Great Artiste also accompanied Bock's Car, but with Major Sweeney at the controls of Bock's Car, and Captain Bock flying The Great Artiste. Why the two pilots switched bombers is unclear. * After the war, the 509th Bomb Group was transferred from Tinian to Roswell, New Mexico where as we all know strange things happened in 1947. To this day the 509th remains the only military unit to deliver nuclear weapons in wartime.

People not killed outright got injured with deep burns, as well as cuts and bruises. Later on rain fell and it was radioactive. Radiation caused vomiting, nausia, headache, and a loss of white blood cells.

The reason why the US used the atomic bomb against Japan was that the US wished to bring the war to a more rapid conclusion, in order to avoid giving the Soviet Union the opportunity to invade and take over Japan, as the Soviet Union had already done in Eastern Europe as a by-product of their fight against the Third Reich.

I believe it was right, yet unright, to use the atomic bomb in World War 2. On one hand, it quickly stopped the war, we would not have to involve ourselves in a bloody invasion of the home islands, and it made the U.S.A. look stronger. But on the other, there have been almost 500,000 deaths because of it, there have been uprisings of revisionists, and we could have waited to see if the invasion of the Soviets two days later would have been successful. I currently have no solid opinion as to whether the atomic bombing was the right decision or not. _____________________________________________________________________ I believe it was right. This is because if we did not use the atomic bomb, and Japan invaded us (the USA) is was estimated that 500,000 to 1,000,000 American people would have been killed. When the USA bombed Japan only 65,000 to 200,000 died. Some might say we should have shown Japan the bomb, but that would have been too risky. It cost the USA about 2 million dollars to make the atomic bombs, why should they waste the money to show Japan what will happen if they don't surrender? They might not surrender anyway! Also, after they saw our bomb, Japan could have made an even bigger one. I am not tring to purswade anyone's opinion, these are just the facts i have gathered.

There were no warnings. The Manhattan Project was a secret. This was the name of the research project that developed the atom bomb.

Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects killed 90,000-166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000-80,000 in Nagasaki,[1] with roughly half of the deaths in each city occurring on the first day.Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects killed 90,000-166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000-80,000 in Nagasaki,[1] with roughly half of the deaths in each city occurring on the first day.

Actually there is no secret to the atomic bomb.

However Klaus Fuchs & Ted Hall provided the plans of Fat Man. This saved them considerable engineering effort.

The first complete test was July 16, 1945; but there had been many component tests performed prior to that, the most significant and dangerous had been the RaLa implosion tests and the criticality tests.

Einstein discovered the use of atom, but there were others who developed rockets to carry a payload.

The blast of atomic bomb causes electrostatic waves and radiation that last for minimum 14 to 18 days in the air after blast, no land could be fertilized cause of the radiation that has been permitted in the land, childrens born abnormal due to radiations that has been emitted on the land and in the atmosphere. It emitted radiation, causing radiation sickness in addition of the people killed and mained. Babies were born for several generation with deformities due to the radiation effects. It eradicated towns and cities thus peoples' homes, communities, families, property, etc.

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at the end of the world war (WW2) the atomic bomb was used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After WW2 the atomic bomb was further developed and "was used as a silent threat against USSR" until 1949 when they had their own atomic bomb. From that year there was an arms race which played a major part in the Cold War

No: Not even thought of.

Yes, there was a warning to Japan that we (the USA) were going to drop an atomic bomb. They did not believe us. So we dropped the atomic bomb. We warned them again. By this time, they did not answer because they were scared that we were going to drop an atomic bomb. So we dropped another bomb. After that, they surrendered the war. So we won World War 2.

The first warning said (and i quote) "we are in possession of the most destructive explosive ever devised by man. A single one of our newly developed atomic bombs is actually the equivalent in explosive power to what 2000 of our giant B-29s can carry on a single mission. This awful fact is one for you to ponder and we solemnly assure you it's grimly accurate. Before using this bomb to destroy every resource of the military by which they are prolonging this unless war, we ask that you now petition the emperor to end the war…"

then the second: Then we sent another warning "Because your military leaders have rejected the thirteen part surrender declaration, two momentous events have occurred in the last few days. Radio Tokyo has told you that with the first use of this weapon of total destruction, Hiroshima was virtually destroyed. Before we use this bomb again and again to destroy every resource of the military by which they are prolonging this useless war, petition the emperor now to end the war. Act at once or we shall resolutely employ this bomb and all our other superior weapons to promptly and forcefully end the war."

The U.S. droped Atomic Bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.

There have only been two atomic bombs dropped in history, both to end World War II. However, the history of this deadly device can be traced back to its beginnings on July 16, 1945.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan

The Japanese surrenderd