Nuclear Weapons

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it happened because of the overload of power because one of the other power plants on the circuit had a breakdown. night time staff where never told not to do the experiment because there was a risk the power plant could and would explode.

There were two. One in august 6 1945 and the other one on the 9th.

NO ONLY 1 LITTLE BOY IN HIROSHIM

half wrong who ever said that above me it was 2 little boy and fatman,

Both are incorrect. Yes. If you count the Test explosion in Arizona when they dropped a bomb from a tower. That makes 3.

Actualy, there was a 3rd bomb in one of the islands of the American island hoppings incase a bomb failed. this bomb was discovered in 1986 and was empty when the americand had to escape the island which then became a Japanese airbase. ALL OF YOU ARE WRONG!

Schools taught children what to do in case of an attack. There were air raid drills in schools and students practiced taking shelter under their desks.

the Americans did drop a shed load of bombs (napam ect.) but the only nukular bombs droped are the 2 droped in japan

Single-celled organisms would likely fare well.

The television show 'Mythbusters' tested and seems to have proved that cockroaches would not survive radiation very well at all. In fact they discovered that flour beetles could and did survive doses of 100,000 Rads (1000 Rads is lethal to a human) with no signs of dying out.

No, the V2 did not have enough range to hit Liverpool, only south east England. Liverpool is in the north west of the country.

Liverpool was bombed in WW2 but with bomber aircraft not missiles.

The United States:

Since 1942, more than 100,000 scientists of the Manhattan Project had been working on the bomb's development. At the time, it was the largest collective scientific effort ever undertaken. It involved 37 installations across the US, 13 university laboratories and a host of prestigious participants such as the Nobel prizewinning physicists Arthur Holly Compton and Harold Urey. Directed by the Army's chief engineer, Brigadier General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project was also the most secret wartime project in history. At first, scientists worked in isolation in different parts of the US, unaware of the magnitude of the project in which they were involved. Later, the project was centralized and moved to an isolated laboratory headed by physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in Los Alamos, New Mexico. On 16 July 1945, scientists carried out the first trial of the bomb in the New Mexico desert. President Truman received news of the successful test whilst negotiating the post-war settlement in Europe at the Potsdam Conference.

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Although voices within the US Military expressed caution regarding the use of the new weapon against Japan, Truman was convinced that the bomb was the correct and only option. Six months of intense strategic fire-bombing of 37 Japanese cities had done little to break the Hirohito regime's resolve, and Japan continued to resolutely ignore the demand for unconditional surrender made at Potsdam. In such circumstances, the use of the atom bomb was seen as the best means of forcing Japan to surrender, and ending the war. The alternative, of an Allied invasion of the Japanese home islands, was expected to cost hundreds of thousands of casualties.

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The effects of the attack were devastating. The predicted Japanese surrender, which came on 15 August - just six days after the detonation over Nagasaki - ended World War II. Yet the shocking human effects soon led many to cast doubts upon the use of this weapon. The first western scientists, servicemen and journalists to arrive on the scene produced vivid and heartrending reports describing a charred landscape populated by hideously burnt people, coughing up and urinating blood and waiting to die.

As far as I know, it didn't. All H-bomb detonations took place in peacetime, and I am unaware of any dropped from a bomber or delivered by a missile by any country. Two less-destructive A-bombs were dropped during WW2, on August 6 and August 9, 1945, by bombers of the US 509th Bomber Group. They were the only two nuclear bombs ever used in war. The first H-bombs were tested after the war, in 1946.

Yes. Hydrogen bombs are, in fact, a variety of atomic weapon.

The first atomic bomb didn't explode in China, it exploded in New Mexico, USA July 25, 1945. I'm 95-99% sure New Mexico had the first one.

The atomic bomb is important because it was what ended World War II. If the bomb was not dropped there would have been many more lives lost in the war. More than 100,000 Japanese people would have been killed cause the U.S. would have invaded Japan. It was a sorta kill 1 to save 100 thing.

Unfortunately that is very uncertain. Fallout from US Nevada tests alone reached everyone of the "lower 48" states and parts of Canada and Mexico. Statistics on actual radiation levels deposited are spotty. Also how do you count properly deaths caused decades later by latent injury, stillbirths, and birth defects that are eventually fatal. Fallout from the US big pacific tests and USSR big Siberian and arctic tests distributed itself around the globe multiple times. No statistics were even collected on these tests.

In other words, we just don't know.

Atom or atomic bomb is an older term. The modern term is Nuclear Weapon or Nuclear Device.

Then of course there are Thermonuclear weapons (typically these are the large strategic nukes), which are also called "Hydrogen Bombs". These typically consist of a primary or trigger, which is basically a small nuclear weapon. This tiny nuke sets off a larger secondary inside the weapon which causes a fusion reaction and a very large explosion.

The Manhattan Project itself cost over 3 billion dollars. That includes the research and enrichment of uranium. I believe each bomb cost around 30 million dollars. This is mainly due to the amount of silver used in the bombs. Since we have found cheaper material to use.

The key elements to making fission bombs are: Uranium and Plutonium. The specific isotopes of interest are: Uranium-233, Uranium-235, and Plutonium-239.

The key elements to making fusion bombs are: Hydrogen and Lithium. The specific isotopes of interest are: Hydrogen-2 (aka Deuterium), Hydrogen-3 (aka Tritium), Lithium-6, and Lithium-7.

But many other elements are needed to make a functional bomb of either type. As a very rough guess, about a quarter of the elements on the periodic table are needed somewhere in the bomb, roughly 23 different elements in total, for either type of bomb.

The USS Indianapolis carried the trigger and radioactive core of the atomic bomb later dropped on Hiroshima (the Little Boy device). The Indy is also well known for the circumstances of its sinking, on the return voyage from dropping off the bomb components. The Indianapolis was torpedoed on 29 July, and sank quickly with the second greatest overall loss of life for any single US Navy ship sinking -- approximately 800 men in total. The Indianapolis disaster is also known for the huge number of shark related deaths as a large compliment of the crew remained alfoat in excellent survival conditions for about 3 days. It turns out that the Indianpolis' cargo had been so secret, there was no record conveyed to its destination, and thus the ship was not reported as overdue, and no rescue was started until the remaining crew were spotted on August 2 by a passing patrol plane. Shark deaths were roughly 500 souls.

The ATOMIC BOMB , can kill millions of people, destroy a county, and all that jazz.

This is why we ( United States) try and not use it, it causes MASS distruction.

If Russia and the United States start fighting with each other so yes, World war 3 can break out in reallife. In that war, there will be no winner so let's pray that World war 3 will never start.

Yes he did, Hitler and the Nazis along with many scientists including Albert Einstein did design the Atomic Bombs which was used by the US onto Japan but Germany was only near in starting production of the Atomic Bombs. When the US invaded Germany they sent the plans straight back to the US so that their scientists can start the final modifications then produce some Bombs.

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