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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 was one motivation for using the atomic bomb against Japan?
To save lives and bring the war to an end.
What was Oppenheimer trying to do when he discovered the atomic bomb?
He was attempting to do just that- make an atomic bomb.
What is the atomic bomb and how do you make it less powerful?
An atomic bomb is any bomb that derives its energy from the atomic nucleus, it may do this by either the process of fission of heavy nuclei or the process of fusion of light nuclei. Atomic bombs can also be called nuclear bombs.
I don't really understand what you mean by "make it less powerful". The US has made tactical atomic weapons with yields as low as 0.1KTon (100 tons TNT equivalent), however I don't know if they are still stockpiled (they are very inefficient and wasteful in their use of plutonium). For optimal efficiency in use of uranium or plutonium in pure fission atomic bombs, a yield of 200KTons to 400KTon is preferred, however I know no such bombs are still stockpiled as compact fusion bombs in this yield range and higher are both more efficient and much cheaper to build.
Why did the U.S. drop the atomic bomb on Japan?
There were persons opposed to the decision made by President Truman. The reasons go from the weapon killed thousandths of civilians, the living with burn scars all over their bodies and the radiation contamination that killed hundreds of people after the bombing and keep bringing the symptoms to date.
President Truman behold his decision for reasons that go from millions of soldiers would die fighting the Japanese in the mother land because all civilians and the military was trained to fight them to the end and these weapons will bring en end to the war. Also British leaders agreed to use the bomb against Japan and supported Truman. Also, United States was considering the following ways of bringing the long war to an end: invade the Japanese mainland in November 1945, ask the Soviet Union to join the war against Japan, or use the atomic bomb.
Some captured u boats contained nuclear material aboard in the route to Germany and that made the decision to use the bomb harder.
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In addition to reasons related to the Japanese the Americans also wanted to demonstrate to the Russians (as the Russians were shaping up to be the next major problem to the US) that the US had the capacity to build and deliver atomic weapons. The actual dropping showed the US was willing to cause massive civilian deaths in pursuit of their goals. The use of two bombs demonstrated that the weapon was not a one shot wonder and that the US had "many more" such weapons in reserve.
How devastating is the aftermath of an atomic bomb?
When the bomb was originally used the scientists made educated estimations on the after effect of the atom bomb on the land and on the people. They thought people would be safe with in a 50 mile radius and thought the radiation would "die out" within 10 years. Later they concluded it could be 50-100 years before no radiation would be detected.
It amazed the physicians of the gravity of the injuries and the "vaporization" of thousands of people. For the next ten years, people who had been exposed to the radiation died from radiation poisoning and cancers. If they did not die right away from radiation sickness they died within months from serious burns. Some of the burn victims survived but they suffered for the rest of their lives.
A team of Japanese and American scientist are still monitoring the after effects of the radiation fallout.
One of the sad things that happened was a monsoon hit Nagasaki several weeks after the bomb damaged the city. This hard rain and wind further scattered the radiation poison.
When was Abdul qadeer khan made his first atomic bomb?
He is a Pakistani nuclear scientist and a metallurgical engineer, colloquially regarded as the founder of HEU based Gas-centrifuge uranium enrichment program for Pakistan's integrated atomic bomb project and the media never tires of glorifying AQ Khan as an eminent nuclear supremo.
AQ Khan built the facade of his invincibility by condemning all the superb accomplishments of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission achieved over 20 years of dedication. First, you know that AQ Khan's was just a copper metallurgist employed in Holland by Urenco and assigned to a less sensitive section, which was not directly involved in development of centrifuges but the United States warned that Khan still remains a "serious proliferation risk".
In December 1974, Abdul Qadeer Khan went to Pakistan and taxied to Prime Minister Secretariat where the session was held at midnight and remained under extreme secrecy with only few knowing about it.There, Qadeer Khan met with Zulfikar Bhutto, Munir Khan, and Dr. Mübaschir Hassan, government Science Adviser. At this session, he enlightened the importance of uranium as oppose to plutonium, but Bhutto remain unconvinced to adopt uranium against the plutonium for the development of an atomic bomb.
Abdul Qadeer Khan pioneered his research in the thermal quantum field and the condensed physics but the nuclear is far away from the making of.
Why did the US use Atomic Bomb?
to help save American lives and 2 end the war because if they didnt the war would have been 8 monthes longer
The Effect of Nuclear Weapon or Atomic Bomb?
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/environm/no_nukes/tenw/nuke_war.htm
this should provide all the info
Are the atomic bomb and depleted uranium the same weapon?
No, the atomic bomb and depleted uranium are not the same thing. Nuclear weapons are made with enriched uranium or with plutonium as the fissionable material. Depleted uranium is uranium that is "left over" after natural uranium is put through a process called enrichment to inprove the concentration of the isotope U-235 over that in natural uranium. The enriched uranium with its higher percentage of U-235 is fissionable, and it can be used in nuclear reactors and in nuclear weapons. Depleted uranium is used to make armor-piercing projectiles, and can be put through the neutron flux in an operating reactor to be transformed (transmuted) into plutonium. Use the links below to related questions to learn more.
What two countries stockpiled masses of atomic bombs during the Cold War?
The United States and the Soviet Union.
What did rerf do to help japan after the atomic bombs?
Almost immediately following the end of World War II, Americans began to question the use of the atomic bomb and the circumstances surrounding the end of the Pacific War. More than half a century later, books and articles on the atomic bomb still provoke storms of debate among readers and the use of atomic weapons remains a sharply contested subject. As the 1995 controversy over the Enola Gay exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum revealed, the issues connected with the dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki continue to touch a sensitive nerve in Americans. Among scholars, disagreement remains no less heated. But, on the whole, this debate has been strangely parochial, centering almost exclusively on how the U.S. leadership made the decision to drop the bombs.
There are two distinct gaps in this historiography. First, with regard to the atomic bombs, as Asada Sadao in Japan correctly observes, American historians have concentrated on the "motives" behind the use of atomic bombs, but "they have slighted the effects of the bomb." Second, although historians have been aware of the decisive influence of both the atomic bombs and the Soviet entry into the war, they have largely sidestepped the Soviet factor, relegating it to sideshow status.
A series of counterfactual hypotheses can help clarify the question of which factor, the atomic bombs or Soviet entry into the war, had the more decisive effect on Japan's decision to surrender. We might ask, in particular, whether Japan would have surrendered before November 1, the scheduled date for the start of Operation Olympic, the U.S. invasion of Kyushu, given neither the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki nor Soviet entry into the war; Soviet entry alone, without the atomic bombings; or the atomic bombings alone, without Soviet entry.
What forces of war caused the us to drop atomic bombs on japan?
The battle for Okinawa supported the decision to use the Atom bomb.
How many atomic bombs were there left after the bombing of Japan?
There were none left. Once the two bombs were dropped on Japan, there were none left in reserve. It would have taken a long time to build and create new ones.
When did japan make atomic bomb?
Japan did not make an atomic bomb. It received two in ww2, one in Hiroshima the other over Nagasaki.
When and where did US drop the atomic bombs on Japan?
"Little Boy" the first atomic bomb used in warfare was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6th, and "Fat Man" the second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan on August 9th. Although Japan was already ready to surrender before the atom bombs were dropped, they did not surrender when the first bomb was dropped, which caused the US to drop the second one. After the second atomic bomb was dropped, Imperial Japan surrendered 5 days later, and the surrender ceremony was September 2nd, which also ended World War 2.
Where when and why was a second atomic bomb dropped after Hiroshima?
The second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. It was two days after the first one on Hiroshima. It was done to convince the Imperial Japanese army that surrender was their only option. Otherwise they would have fought to the death and millions of Japanese and Americans would have died in the invasion of Japan.
Did lapan have atomic bombs in 1945?
Most people say no
There is however considerable debate on account of new clues and evidence suggesting otherwise.
A book by Richard k Wilcox called "Japan's Secret War," reveals fascinating evidence of two competing nuclear weapons projects in Japan during WW2, one led by Dr Yoshio NISHINA and the other for the Navy led by Prof Bunsuku ARAKATSU. Late in the war the two projects were amalgamated into a single project and a laboratory was created at Konan, now known as Hungnam in northern Korea. Soviet Paratroopers captured the laboratory on 22 August 1945 along with six leading scientists and engineers.
A US military Intelligence officer named David Snell interviewed an officer of the secret police at a Shinto Shrine above Seoul city. This man used a false name and Snell noted the fact. The US Army agreed to keep the officer's real identity secret, but it is recorded that he was treated at the shrine as a VIP. His alias was Capt. Wakabayashi, but in likelihood he was Prince Chichuba.
Wakabayashi stated to Snell that on 12 August Japan successfully detonated a nuclear weapon on one of the small islands near Wonson, Korea.
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Why was the dropping of the atomic bomb good?
This act is still in debate to this very day. Some people in the world said it had to be done while others considered it over-kill. Marcy Had the US NOT used the atomic bombs, it would have had to "pound" the mainland of Japan almost to extinction. The Japanese military command [primarily the army] was rabid about fighting to the "very end." They had the "ear" and trust of the Emperor, AND by years of carefully controlled propaganda, had almost all of the civilian population also whipped into such a war frenzy that had the Allies invaded the mainland, they would have had to fight the people to the death, inch by inch, foot by foot across the entire island system. The people [men, women, and many of the children] were prepared to fight any "invaders" using anything at hand [garden tools, tool handles, stones, etc, etc.]. The bloodshed, death, and maiming would have been unbelievably inhumane. It has been suggested that in JUST "preparing" the Japanese mainland for an invasion, would have required weeks, possibly months, of around the clock heavy aerial bombing resulting in the deaths of millions of civilians, and millions more maimed. Then, an invasion itself would result in millions more Japanese casualties. On the Allied side, estimates of casualties from an invasion range from a million or two at "best case," with possibly several million at worst case. There appears to be only ONE good result of the use of the atomic bombs to facillitate the earliest surrender of Japan, and that is that the action resulted in the prevention of MULTIPLE millions of civilian AND military casualties [deaths and maimings], AT THE COST OF ONLY A FEW HUNDRED THOUSAND CASUALTIES. Although this is horrorendously stomach turning to any civilized person, but on the other hand, was probably the most humane option.j3h.
What type of cloud results from an atomic bomb explosion?
Mushroom clouds result from atomic bomb explosions. These clouds form due to the intense heat and pressure generated during the detonation, causing a vertical column of hot air, smoke, and debris to rise rapidly into the atmosphere. The top of the column then expands, creating the distinctive mushroom shape.
What are the real name of atomic bomb?
The two that were used in WW2 were named "Little Boy" (dropped on Hiroshima) and "Fat Man" (dropped on Nagasaki).
