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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.
2,042 Questions
How old was the man who dropped the atomic bomb?
Major Thomas Ferrebee was 26 years old at the time of the Enola Gay bombing mission.
How many times stronger is a volcano eruption than a atomic bomb?
The total energy released by the four main events of the Krakatoa explosion in 1883 eruption was equivalent to 200 megatons of TNT. Hiroshima was 15 kilotons. This will help you visualize the unit of both.
What month and year did USA drop atomic bombs on japan?
The two atomic bomb attacks on Japan were in August 1945 (the 6th and 9th, to be exact).
What were the cons of dropping the atomic bomb on hiroshima?
Pro: To save millions of Japanese lives, millions of Allied lives including the Reds who were ready to invade Japan. That is what the atomic bombs did accomplish. Some Japanese say it was better to lose some of their own rather than be wiped off the face of the earth by the Reds, Americans, Canadians and Australians.
Con: They killed hundreds of thousands of people with the bombing, radiation fallout and subsequent infections and cancerous diseases derived from the radiation poisoning. Atomic bombs are not militarily proper to use.
Thoughts to consider: The military leaders for the next 6 decades have never lobbed one of their nuclear missiles knowing they would wipe out 1/3 of the earth with one of the modern nuclear missiles. That would not include the amount of deaths afterward. So did they learn from the atomic bombing of World War 2?
The military warriors of the Red Army, US Army, The Marines, The Royal Forces all say they are extremely grateful for the atomic bombs finally motivating Emperor Hirohito to surrender. Had Hirohito not surrendered it is likely a good eighty percent of the Russians, Americans, Brits, Canadians and Australians would have died right alongside the Japanese military and civilians. Many of the warriors have gone up to the developers of the atomic bombs and thanked them. There have been Japanese civilians who were so relieved it was over and mourned the loss of the Japanese who had to die just to get Hirohito to finally end the war. The Japanese civilians did not have any "power of the voice" to motivate their leaders to stop the war.
When was the last atomic bomb dropped?
"Fat Man" was dropped over the city of Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945 on 10:47 A.M.
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Who was involved with the development of the atomic bomb?
Many people were involved; one of the most famous might have been J. Robert Oppenheimer.
The test location for the first atomic bomb was?
The test location of the first atomic bomb was located in California as it was known as the Manhattan Project.
Which kind of scientists create atomic bombs?
Nuclear physicists and engineers are primarily responsible for designing and creating atomic bombs. These scientists study the behavior of atomic nuclei and develop the technology needed to release the energy stored within them for destructive purposes.
What were the consequences of dropping atomic bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki?
dead people poisend land.
When and what time was the atomic bomb dropped?
Hiroshima - August 6 1945 - 8.15 am
Nagasaki - August 9 1945 - 11.02 am
How many Nuclear Reactions happen in an atomic bomb?
One cycle of fission takes 10ns, the explosion completes in about 1us, that gives 100 cycles of fission. Each fission releases 2 to 3 neutrons. Assuming that every neutron released in those 100 cycles triggers another fission and that the reaction is started by one neutron the range of fissions during the explosion is 2100 to 3100 fissions. This is 1.2676e+30 to 5.1537e+47 fissions. That is quite a few moles of fissile material.
How did World War 2 change the nature of warfare?
There was introduction of the atomic bomb, and mass production of tanks.
It was right to drop the atomic bomb?
Unfortunately it was the only credible choice for the Allies in WWII. Japan did want to surrender (to surrender in Japan was to lose face). The battles for Iwo Jima and Okinawa were bloodbaths for both sides. An island invasion of Japan would have cost probably a million casualties for both the Allies and Japan. Dropping the two atom bombs was difficult but the only realistic choice for the Allies and Japan. Japan soon surrendered after Nagasaki was bombed.
When have atomic bombs been dropped?
The first atomic bomb has been dropped by a United States aircraft on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
President Harry S Truman, announcing the news from the cruiser, USS Augusta, in the mid-Atlantic, said the device was more than 2,000 times more powerful than the largest bomb used to date.
An accurate assessment of the damage caused has so far been impossible due to a huge cloud of impenetrable dust covering the target. Hiroshima is one of the chief supply depots for the Japanese army.
The bomb was dropped from an American B-29 Superfortress, known as Enola Gay, at 0815 local time. The plane's crew say they saw a column of smoke rising and intense fires springing up...
What year did Americans successfully test the atomic bomb?
The first atomic bomb test took place on April 16th, 1945. It was much too late to change the course of the war, but cost the US gov't more than $2B (more than $22B in today's dollars) and hundreds of thousands of workers; 130,000 to be specific.
Why was the dropping of the atomic bomb criticized?
These are the reasons for the criticisms of the atomic bomb usage.
- They were responsible for the destruction of two cities.
- They were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
- They were responsible for the radiation poison in Japan and the nearby sea waters and lands.
- They caused people to die from radiation poisoning.
- They helped to spark the Cold War and the nuclear arms race.
- There is still a team of Japanese and American scientists dealing with the after affects of the radiation sicknesses and levels of radiation.
- They cost over 2 Billion dollars in the 1940s.
- The Japanese Military leaders were not impressed by the bombs because the incendiary bombs dropped all over Japan caused significantly more damage and deaths.
- The Japanese would have surrendered sooner if the Allied Forces had amended their surrender demand to allow the Emperor to remain in place. They could have avoided dropping the bombs if they had negotiated with the Japanese.
What was the name of the first atomic bomb test?
It was called the Trinity test. It was tested in Trinity, New Mexico. It was not too far from Alamogordo New Mexico.
Where did they test the first atomic bomb?
The Gadget was tested at Trinity site in NM, near the northeast corner of what is now White Sands Missile Range.
Was the atomic bomb neccessary?
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.
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Was the first atomic bomb exploded near Santa Fe?
The Trinity Test Site is located about 35 miles southeast of Socorro New Mexico in the White Sands Proving Ground. Socorro in turn is located 138 miles south southeast of Santa Fe.
Who came out with the atomic bomb first us or USSR?
The US.
The USSR stole our plans to make their first bombs.
Did the Nazis develop the atomic bomb?
The short answer is Yes, the Nazis developed a low yield tactical nuclear weapon with a 5 kilogram warhead and a blast radius of 1200 metres (1.2 kilometres)
An American intelligence report dated 15 June 1945 about German Technical Transfer to Japan during WW2, noted the interrogation of Japanese officer who disclosed during 1944 Germany had transferred details of a matchbox sized warhead with a blast radius of 1200 metres.
Nazi patents hidden in the personal papers of Dr Walter Trinks detail a warhead using just 150 grams of uranium 233, which would make a marble sized warhead core.
Two Nazi scientists General Dr Erich Schumann (nuclear physicist) and Dr Walter Trinks (ballistics Expert) developed 40 patents for a nuclear weapon during WW2 which were later copied or adapted after WW2 by the Americans and the French to create miniaturised or tactical nuclear weapons.
In the early 1950s German wartime nuclear physicist Prof Diebner was recruited to teach the US how to create minature nuclear weapons. Schumann was recruited by the French to teach France how to make nuclear weapons.
These weapons were entirely different in concept from the nuclear weapons created in the Manhattan project which exploited the concept of natural critical mass.
The Nazi nuclear weapons used less than critical mass of Uranium, but used the implosion of opposed hollow charge explosives to drive a plasma pinch at the fissile core.
The plasma pinch was created by the focused explosive compression of superheated Lithium against a 150 gram target of Uranium 233 coated with Lithium Deuteride (heavy Hydrogen). The superheated collision of Deuterium and Lithium sparked a massive release of neutrons which replicated the same neutron flux found in a much larger critical mass of Uranium 235 at the point of criticality similar to the US Little Boy weapon dropped over Hiroshima.
The Nazis used Uranium 233 in preference to Uranium 235 because it could be obtained far more easily and inexpensively than enrichment of Uranium 235 or breeding of Plutonium 239, by simply bombarding Thorium 232 with artificial radiation.
Also the Nazi method using transmutation of Thorium 232 resulted in an extremely high isotopic purity and thus less was required. The method of detonation required much less fissile material again, thus the Nazis had no need for a massive enrichment project on the scale of Oak Ridge and Hanniford River.
Artificial radiation was created using cyclotrons and van der graff generators, but from 1943 the Germans also had an advanced particle accelerator which was more like a spherical tokamak. One of these was captured at Burggrub by General Patton's forces on 14 April 1945 and another was captured at Bisingen at the laboratory of Forschungsstelle D on 22 April 1945.
US intelligence reports cite a successful nuclear test explosion on Bug isthmus of Reugen along the Baltic coast on 12 October 1944. In 2005 an Italian war correspondent Luigi Romersa came forward to confirm that he witnessed this test explosion. Further nuclear test explosions are claimed to have happened at Ohrdruf in March 1945. At least one eyewitness Clare Werner came forward in 2005, corroborated by several other sources.
A Japanese diplomatic signal from Stockholm sent on 12 December 1944 discusses the use of a German Uranium atom smashing weapon on the Russian front south of Kursk in June 1943 and later during the siege of a German garrison at Sevastapol in early 1944. The Magic decrypt of this signal was declassified in 1979.
A US military archivist who worked on destruction of classified wartime files has published claims that he destroyed US held Nazi records detailing the use of tactical nuclear weapons in Pomerania.
After the war Lt General Walter Dornberger disclosed to hidden microphones at a British internment camp that Hitler had always intended to use the V-2 rocket with nuclear warheads. Dornberger's secretly taped conversations were cited in evidence at Nuremberg trials. At Nuremberg German armaments Minister Albert Speer was also questioned about nuclear test blasts at the Orhdruf Concentration camp. Exactly why the British wanted to know about German nuclear test explosions at Nuremberg was never disclosed.
On 5 August 1944 Hitler visited Romania's leader Marshall Antonescu and told him Germany had a Uranium atom smashing weapon of unimaginable destructive force. A month later Romania fell to a revolution and Antonescu gave evidence of Hitler's disclosure to his soviet interrogators.
