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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 year was atomic bomb invented?
"Invention" does not typically require the physical realization of the invented thing, nor a working model according to patent law. A patent for an atomic bomb was awarded to Leo Szilard in 1934. That patent is regarded as the invention of the atomic bomb. He immediately tried to turn the patent over to the British government as a gift. He was attempting to restrict the availability of the bomb. On October 8, 1935 the British War Office rejected the offer. Later, in February 1936 the British Admiralty accepted the gift.
What would have happened if the U.S. did not drop the atomic bomb?
The US would have invaded Japan on 01 Nov 45 Operation: DOWNFALL.
Were people against dropping the atomic bombs?
Do you mean before the fact? First off, very few people were aware of the existence of the atomic bombs. Second, of those who did know, most did not have first-hand knowledge of how powerful the bombs actually were. Third, because it was probably the best kept secret of the war, even less people got to discuss, much less debate the deployment of the bombs. There certainly no 'public' debate.
And finally, remember that the U.S. and its allies were at war with a nation that had proved it was capable and willing to fight to the very last man. The bombs notwithstanding, the allies were making plans for an all-out assault and invasion of Japan. Estimates of Allied losses in the planned invasion were as much as 100,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines. By any standard, those projected losses were staggering.
When the atomic bombs were deployed to the West Pacific, the greatest fear was that the bombs would somehow fail. Our greatest hope was that they would hasten the end, an end that was already known. The Allies were going to win the war against Japan. The only real question was how much more allied blood would be spilt in the process.
Perhaps the only real debate centered around where to deploy the bombs for maximum effect and how to best safeguard the plans.
Why did they stop using atomic bombs?
If you are referring to WW2, then the US stopped using atomic bombs on Japan because Japan agreed to surrender. Had they not, the US had plans and production setup to drop a total of 23 atomic bombs on Japan in 1945.
When has an atomic bomb been used recently?
The only time a nuclear bomb has been 'used' to attack anyone was at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Subsequently the US, Russia, and UK all carried out above ground tests, before all tests started to be done underground. Recently North Korea detonated a nuclear bomb as an underground test but will never launch one because then Russia would launch a nuke at Korea causing massive nuclear war.
This would depend on where N Korea sent its bomb, I don't know why they would attack Russia and it would be suicide if they did. Their most likely target would be S Korea.
Reason for using the atomic bomb?
Was using the Atomic Bomb a good idea? Yes, it was. It ended the war and actually saved many lives. If we didn't use the bomb on the Japanese they could have killed many of our soldiers or destroyed our cities. A few good reasons to use the bomb was because it ended the war, saved many lives, and to get back for the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Using the atomic bomb in WWII was a good way the end the war. If the war didn't end, many more soldiers could have died. The number of people that died from the bomb is only a small fraction of the people that would have died if the war kept going on. According to Marston 13, around 200,000 people died and many more were injured. If the war kept going, millions of people could have died.
One other reason for using the bomb was to get back for the attack on Pearl Harbor. From that attack, about 1,500 people died, and almost 200 U.S. planes were destroyed. Using the atomic bomb on them was a great way to get back at them by killing more than one hundred times as many people.
How nuch money did it take to build atomic bomb for world war 2?
$2,342.98 plus about 5 books of Trading Stamps
When was the atomic bomb first built?
The first atomic bomb was produced by the US in 1945under the program known as the Manhattan Project (controlled and uncontrolled nuclear fission). The programs involved in building the bomb ultimately included 14 separate locations in the US. In December, 1942, a fission reaction was successfully initiated at the University of Chicago by Enrico Fermi and others. Work on the actual bomb(s) was conducted at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico under the direction of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. On July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was test detonated at Alamagordo, NM. Twenty-one days later, the city of Hiroshima, Japan, was destroyed by a nuclear explosive (August 6). On August 9, 1945, the city of Nagasaki was destroyed by a second bomb of a different type.
Why was the Atomic Bomb produced?
to kill every one else
IT WAS PRODUCED IN AN EFFORT TO PRODUCE A WEAPON WITH SUFFICIENT DESTRUCTIVE POWER TO HELP WIN WORLD WAR 2
Against the Japanese city of Hiroshima, on 6th August 1945.
What were the pro's and cons of dropping the atomic bomb?
PROS: It ended the war. We gave them a chance to surrender. There would have been more people killed if we had went over there to fight. The two cities that were bombed were going to get fir-bombed anyways. Only two bombs were ready and we couldn't afford to drop a test one. The results of the bomb droppings have prevented other countries from dropping nuclear bombs and such.
What was the purpose of the atomic bomb?
Because human beings are greedy and selfish.They want more land,oil,wealth and power.They couldn't think of any other ways to live peacefully with each other.But on the other hand,they couldn't even live peacefully with their own self,much less with others.
we know what happened to the people they dropped it on already,so why are officials still making them?
why do human race have to resort to threatening,to terrorize and to kill,to make themselves feel "superior" to others?
were all critics in the world with opinions that never seem to stop.
but the real answer is to end the war quickly,we were losing thousand of American troops and we had our selfs out numbered and adding renforcements would exeed the death toll it was also a message to other countrys to show the power that which was bestowed to the us.
Why was the atomic bomb created?
To save millions more lives that would have been spent in a drawn out conventional war with imperial Japan, the scientists in the United States (ahead of Nazi Germany, who was also working on the atomic bomb) created the bomb to escalate the war with Japan. They ignored the first bomb dropped on Hiroshima, but the Empire of Japan decided they could not win and surrendered to the US shortly after a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.
After the war did America test nuclear bombs?
Yes, the US continued testing into the early 1990s performing somewhere around 10000 total tests.
Did albert einstein regret making the atom bomb?
Einstein didn't invent the atom bomb. He might have felt regret that it had been invented, but he had no personal part in its creation.
Where did the uranium bombs first get tested?
It was decided in WW2 that it was not necessary to test the Uranium gun bomb design of the MK-I Littleboy. Its first test was in actual combat when it was dropped over Hiroshima.
Later Uranium implosion bomb designs were tested both on Bikini Atoll and the Nevada Test Site.
Are atomic bombs bigger now than in World War 2?
That depends on what you mean by "bigger":
- physically, no. in WW2 the bombs were about 10 feet long and 5 feet in diameter and weighed about 5 tons, modern bombs can be built 3 feet long and 18 inches in diameter and weigh about 600 pounds (much smaller bombs than that have been built, including a bomb 1 foot in diameter and weighing 50 pounds)
- yield, generally but not always. in WW2 the bombs had a yield of about 20000 tons of TNT equivalent, modern bombs typically vary in yield from about 10000 to about 300000 tons of TNT equivalent (bombs have been built with yields as low as 10 tons of TNT equivalent to as high as 52000000 tons of TNT equivalent)
