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Atomic Bombs
Atomic bomb is an explosive device in which a large amount of energy is released through nuclear reactions. This makes an atomic bomb, more properly called a nuclear weapon, a much more powerful device than any conventional bomb containing chemical explosives. The first Atomic Bombs were used during World War 2 in 1945 by the US onto 2 Japanese cities.
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What damage did the atomic bomb do to hiroshima?
It destroyed the city and the health consequences were:
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What is the compromise of the atomic bomb?
I think part of the answer is that the United States had some countries sign an agreement to not make, use,or even test old atomic bombs.
How does an atomic bomb effect the economy?
The atomic bomb made Japan's economy temporarily collapse, but, with the help of the United States, got back on it's feet. See it as if a person punched some-one, but then helped them back up. Japan lost many farms, which made the stock market branch in farming collapse. Nagasaki was a major industrial city, and the A-bomb (atomic bomb) took out the stock market branch of the industries.
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Why didn't they use an atomic bomb on Hitler?
According to the War of Nerves book, the Nazis did develop and stockpile chemical weapons, but they mistakenly thought that the Allies also had these weapons, so decided not to use them.
AnswerAlso, the "handwriting was on the wall" and his military leaders were probably thinking of their life after the war. They may have been thinking what good it would do to use chemical weapons when they knew the Allies would respond in kind for a war that was already lost. What good would it do to survive the war and then be hung for war crimes? I doubt that even if ordered to use chemical weapons, most regular army units would not. SS units might though. AnswerWell, I guess maybe Hitler's psychology and his personal experiences might have played a role in why or why not he used chemical weapons. But another answer might be possible. Chemical weapons of the time were fired by artillery from a short distance, 10 miles. Overall it wasn't very effective at killing. In World War I it was practical because it was meant to weaken an enemy trench position.However in a mobile war that Hitler had created, that type of weapon was not pratical. Usually because the position of the enemy could not be determined, as from the huge trenches dug by the Triple Allies. And by the time World War II had arrived a gas mask was standard issue, thus decreasing it's killing or wounding potential. And finally there was no garauntees that the gas would stay in one place, sometimes it went back on the people who where firing it. The conclusion is that it is a largley ineffective weapon by World War II and who no pratical purpose than by killing "undesirables". And that gas wasn't even a weapon, it was a pestiside.
AnswerI researched this for a current project in my history class and I found out that Hitler was burned with mustard gas (in his face) in The Great War or World War 1, and that he didn't want to get burned in the face again.What date did the atomic bomb explode over Hiroshima?
The atomic bombs where the last attacks in World War 2. A uranium gun-type atomic bomb (Little Boy) was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, followed by a plutonium implosion-type bomb (Fat Man) on the city of Nagasaki on August 9. The first atomic bomb ever to be used in a military operation was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, Japan On August 6, 1945 at 8:16:02 a.m. Hiroshima time. The bomb, affectionately named "Little Boy," exploded 1,900 feet above the courtyard of Shima Hospital, with a force equivalent to 12,500 tons of TNT. The second bomb, called "Fat Man," exploded over Nagasaki, Japan, at 11:02 a.m. on August 9, 1945. It exploded at 1,650 feet with a force of 22,000 tons of TNT. 70,000 people lost their lives in Nagasaki by the end of 1945 due to the bombing. A total of 140,000 died within the next five years.
Did Germany create an atomic bomb in the World War 2?
IMMIGRANTS from Germany helped make the A-Bomb.
What is the name of the plane and the pilot that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki?
Bockscar is the name of the U. S. Army Air Forces B-29 bomber that dropped the the atomic bomb, "Fat Man," on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The name, which is painted on the aircraft is a pun on "boxcar," after the name of the aircraft's commander, Captain Frederick C. Bock. For this mission, however, it was Major Charles Sweeney who flew Bockscar. Some official and unofficial documents have mistakenly called the plane Bock's Car, Bocks Car and Box Car over the years.
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What are the good and bad points of dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Dropping the atomic bomb was a bad thing because it brought the Japanese to a very bad state and the radiation affected people into having poor babies. It was very hard to bring back Japan into a normal state
The good thing was that it restored a lot of places in the world to peace. The atomic bomb forced the Japanese to surrender stopping them doing anything worse or getting stronger so someday, will be able to attack other places with large military such as America.
What year was the atomic bomb made?
You must be thinking of Oppenheimer. He did not personally make the bomb by himself. Thousands of workers were needed to create and build the three atomic bombs during World War 2. They were developed in the Manhattan Project in several places around the US but the primary place was in New Mexico.
Why did the Japanese military set off a bomb in the Chinese territory it controlled?
To give Japan an excuse to seize Manchuria from China
The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were launched from?
The atomic bombs , Fat Man and Little Boy , were delivered on targets Hiroshima and Nagasaki by two B-29 Super Fortresses , the Enola Gay and Bockscar , originating from the Pacific island of Tinian .
Why did they choose nagasaki for dropping the atomic bomb?
At the end of World War II, few questioned Truman's decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Most Americans accepted the obvious reasoning: the atomic bombings brought the war to a more timely end. They did not have a problem with over one hundred thousand of the enemy being killed. After all, the Japanese attacked America, and not the other way around. In later years, however, many have begun to question the conventional wisdom of "Truman was saving lives," putting forth theories of their own. However, when one examines the issue with great attention to the results of the atomic bombings and compares these results with possible alternatives to using said bombs, the line between truth and fiction begins to clear. Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan was for the purpose of saving lives and ending the war quickly in order to prevent a disastrous land invasion.
What city did not have the atomic bomb dropped on it?
There were a bunch of cities in WW2 that were not bomber such as New York city and Los Angles California.
yes these city's were not bombed in world war 2 but on the whole this is a really good question...65 citys were bombed in Germany alone so theres a starting point for you! thanks x
When and where did the atomic bomb get set off?
The first test was July 16, 1945 in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The Atomic bomb was also used to end Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 & to obliterate Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
Was japan the first to research atomic bombs?
Who knows which country started on the atomic bomb research first. Japan burned up much of their research. The Germans did the same. The US kept their records but we don't know who started researching first. We only know the US actually finished the research and developed the bomb.
What effect did the USSR have on the United States decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan?
None whatsoever. Michael Montagne The bombing of Japan with the atomic bomb served as a signal to the USSR that the US not only had the bomb, but that the US government was also crazy enough the use it. Simply having the bomb and ending the war - the Japanese had been offering to surrender for months before the bombing -- would have left the possibility open that the US would not use the bomb, but just bluff with it.
How many atomic bombs did the us make in World War 2?
The US had built 4 atomic bombs before the end of WW2 and detonated 3 of those. There were plans and facilities for building another 20 before the end of 1945 had they been needed.
- Gadget, detonated July 16, 1945 on a steel tower at the Trinity site in what is now White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico
- Little Boy, detonated August 6, 1945 over Hiroshima, Japan
- Fatman, detonated August 9, 1945 over Nagasaki, Japan
- unnamed, arrived in San Francisco on August 18, 1945 returned to Los Alamos (probably could have been dropped on Japan around August 25, 1945)
Why did US develop an atomic bomb?
To end WWII without the potential loss of many American military lives which would have occurred in Japan was invaded. The Japanese military was brainwashed into suicidal acts rather than surrender to an enemy.
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Actually the US did NOT develop the atomic bomb for use against Japan, it was developed to make sure we got it before Nazi Germany! If Hitler had gotten nuclear weapons there would have been no stopping him anywhere! We HADto try as hard as we could to see that we would have them before Hitler.
However Germany's nuclear project had, unknown the US, turned toward reactor development not bombs, so our fear was unfounded. Also Hitler and the Nazi's didn't trust this new nuclear physics, too many of its developers were Jews and it sounded a lot like "Jewish Physics" (which if you were found teaching it in a university could get you fired or shot).
By the time the US had its first atomic bomb Germany had already surrendered. So the motivation for developing it was gone. But the war wasn't.
The bomb ended up being used on Japan because:
- They were the only enemy left
- The planned invasion of Japan scheduled for the end of September 1945 was projected to take over a year to win and about a million lives on each side
- It had already been decided that if during the invasion of Japan, the Japanese resisted us as fiercely as they had on the last Pacific islands (and there was no reason to assume they wouldn't), that we would use chemical weapons, a violation of the Geneva Convention; use of the Atomic Bomb offered a possible way to avoid this
- The US was tired of war and wanted it ended
- The US had spent $2,000,000,000 developing the atomic bomb
- If the war took another year or longer to win and it was discovered that we had a $2,000,000,000 weapon that could have won it a year before, Truman would have had no end of trouble from congress and the public; impeachment was even a possibility
- Basically Truman had no choice BUT to use the atomic bomb on Japan
What were the short term effects of the atomic bomb on Japan?
Complete and utter devastation. Michael Montagne
What two cities did the us drop 2 atomic bombs on in 1945?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Both are in Japan.
What type of energy is stored in an atomic bomb?
The same as is stored in other bombs and even ordinary nonexplosive objects: mass energy. The amount of this energy in a given object in conventional units is given by the well known equation E=Mc2, or in relativistic units by the equation E=M.
The difference is the atomic bomb is able to release a much larger amount of this energy because it can convert more of its available mass to energy.
Note: in the fatman bomb which had a yield of about 22 kilotons, the bomb weighed 10,000 pounds (4536 kilograms), the plutonium core weighed 6.2 kilograms; only about 700 grams of the plutonium fissioned and only about 1 gram of mass was converted to energy! An explosion of 22 kilotons of ordinary TNT also converts only about 1 gram of mass to energy.
