Atomic Bombs

I cannot tell you this, the details are classified. You would need a Q clearance and appropriate need to know to get access to this.

However, that said general information on this is in publicly available literature. A few books you might be interested in are: Robert Del Tredici's At Work in the Fields of the Bomb, Len Ackland's Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West, Frank Barnaby's How to Build a Nuclear Bomb. I would also suggest taking a tour of the Hanford Washington B Reactor, which manufactured plutonium for the Gadget and Fatman bombs and many post WW2 atomic bombs.

Another option if you still want greater detail would be to make FOIA requests, however expect long delays, rejections which you will need to appeal, and highly redacted documents in any you succeed in obtaining.

Roughly 100,000 each.

But you have to remember that about this same amount was dieing in each "1000 plane" firebombing attack, several of whichwere conducted every night during this same period of time.

Then the U.S. would have eventually invaded the Japanese mainland. As the Japanese were not going to surrender, there would have been millions of Japanese killed. U.S. deaths would also have been in the thousands, maybe as high as a million. Japan would have been defeated but at a very high cost in human life and more than likely the total destruction of all major Japanese cities.

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The Japanese goal was the creation of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere." Essentially, that meant that all of eastern Asia would be united -- and ruled by the Japanese. Few people realize that the ruling class in Japan at that time considered all non-Asians to be racially inferior, and Japanese esteemed themselves as the highest of all Asians. This racism is at the root of the widespread torture and murder inflicted by the Japanese on all they conquered. (This routine criminal behavior is generally poorly documented, and universally ignored by apologists and revisionists.)

By 1945, Japan was a defeated nation. Its primary offensive weapon, the Imperial Japanese Navy, had practically ceased to exist; what was left of it dared not leave its home ports. Once LeMay's B-29 raids got into full swing that summer, US airmen were killing as many as 120,000 Japanese per raid, using primarily "Willie Pete," white phosphorus-based incendiary bombs. It was when viewing the aftermath of one of these raids on Tokyo that Emperor Hirohito is believed to have taken his decision to become directly involved in seeking an end to the war. Japan's defenses were so feeble that the B-29 crews were removing defensive armament from their planes so they could carry more bombs. The chances of a crew returning from a mission over Japan were around 99%; most of the few losses were due to mechanical failure.

The dire predictions of invasion casualties offered by some of Truman's advisors were probably exaggerated. But hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Japanese citizens would surely have perished had the war been prolonged, even without an invasion. With the US Navy effectively blockading every Japanese port, food shortages were already plaguing the country, and famine was visible on the horizon. No nation, however motivated by religion or creed, can withstand mass starvation. Add in the nightly visits from "B-san," spreading fiery death through the cities, and it's easy to see that Japan truly had no future.

Enola Gay is the name of the U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb, "Little Boy," on Hiroshima, on August 6, 1945. It was flown by Colonel Paul Tibbets.

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 Boxcar over the years.

See Sources and related links for additional information and a photo of Bockscar.

The names Little Boy & Fat Man were military codenames, picked originally so that if they leaked to the enemy might sound like they were designing a custom airplane to carry FDR (Little Boy) & Churchill (Fat Man).

The general codename for Fat Man practice bombs carrying no plutonium was Pumpkin bombs. Several of these were dropped on Japanese cities in late july and early august to keep the crews in practice before the live bombs arrived.

At the outset of World War 2 there was great fear in the scientific community that Nazi Germany would be the first to develop nuclear weapons. There was no doubt in the minds of physicists, many of whom were refugees from the Nazis, that Hitler would use an atom bomb if he obtained one. Accordingly the United States, Britain and Canada jointly developed the first atomic weapons in what was called the Manhattan Project.

Below are related links to Wikipedia articles on this subject, which is likely far too complex to answer in this forum. You can also try Googling "Nuclear Weapons," and of course you can and should visit your local library. Your librarian will be more than happy to steer you to dozens of books on this subject, which is truly fascinating and at times simply as mind boggling as a nuclear explosion.

Another Answer: US developed atomic bomb by setting up a scientific committee to study the issue. The British research so impressed the Americans that they convinced Roosevelt to begin a program to build an atomic bomb. The American program to build an atomic bomb was code-named the Manhattan Project. The project's first breakthrough came in 1942, when Szilard and Enrico Fermi, another physicist, built the world's first nuclear reactor at the University of Chicago. Groves organized a team of engineers and scientists to build an atomic bomb at a secret laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

I believe it was when Albert Einstein wanted to start research on the atomic bomb.

You believe wrong. The only thing Einstein had to do with the atomic bomb project was to sign a letter written by Leo Szilard warning FDR of the possibility of a Nazi atomic bomb and suggesting a study into the possibility. The history of the atomic bomb starts in 1933 with Leo Szilard:

1. While crossing a London street in 1933, Leo Szilard invented the nuclear neutron chain reaction, the key to the atomic bomb. However he had no known material that would support a chain reaction.
2. In 1934, Leo Szilard was granted his patent on the chain reaction and the atomic bomb.
3. In 1936, Leo Szilard signed his patent over to the British Admiralty to keep it out of the hands of the Nazis in Germany.
4. In 1938, Otto Hahn in Berlin discovered that Uranium-235 fissioned when hit by a neutron and produced excess neutrons. This made Szilard's patent practical.
5. In 1939, Einstein signs Szilard's letter to FDR. A preliminary study is begun late in the year.
6. In 1940, MAUD committee begins formal study of bomb physics.
7. In 1941, Glenn Seaborg discovers Plutonium.
8. In 1942, the Manhattan Project is formally begun.
9. July 16, 1945, the Gadget device is tested at Trinity site.
10. August 6 & 9, 1945, two atomic bombs are dropped on Japan.
11. In 1946, two atomic bombs are fired on Bikini Atoll in Operation Crossroads to test effects on shipping.
12. In 1947, the Manhattan Project ends with its responsibilities turned over to the new AEC.