US in WW2

the Americans said that if they do not stop, they will bombed Tokyo

2 atomic bombs and 2 million HE bombs and 5 million incendiary fire bombs

The second US nuclear weapon, used against the city of Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945, was called "Fat Man" for its shape. It used plutonium-239 as its fissioning material, as did the Trinity nuclear device, tested at Alamagordo NM on July16. (see related question)

A lot of code talkers were killed off because when the Japanese saw them in the planes, they would kill the code talkers right away because the code talkers were the main source of communication.

The desert fox.

Edit- His division in France was also called the Ghost Division and he was referred to as Ghost Leader.

There are several reasons why people die in bomb explosions which correspond to the ways how bombs inflict damage.

The first is overpressure, especially for larger bombs. What happens in this process is that the blast compresses the surround air, sending out a wave of high-pressure air that forces its way into lungs. The human body can only take so much pressure before the lungs rupture and you suffer the unfortunate effects of pulmonary embolism. Overpressure is also very effective against manmade structures such as buildings, leading to structural failure.

Secondly, and a more common cause of death with smaller explosive charges, is shrapnel damage. In larger bombs, the steel bomb case is destroyed and breaks into very fast moving fragments that cause penetration damage and possibly hydrostatic shock. In smaller antipersonnel weapons like grenades there is usually a length of segmented wire or similar material wrapped around the explosive that performs the same function.

Thirdly, especially with incendiary bombs, damage comes from ignition of combustible materials. In many cluster munitions, for example, there is a band of zirconium that is ignited by the explosion and sprayed in every direction. The very high temperatures of the burning zirconium easily ignite most materials, including human flesh, to catastrophic results. Napalm and other similar weapons are designed specifically to kill by burning rather than by the actual explosive blast.

The reason relocation for Japanese Americans was put to use. Was due to the fact of the bombing Pearl Harbor. The American people were so stereotypical that they thought all Japanese people were linked to the attack on Pearl Harbor. They were taken to places almost like the concentration camps in Germany. But these relocation camps were meant for holding people until the war with Japan was over. Not for exterminating a race from existence.

Very few people knew ANYTHING about the atomic bomb. First of all it was customary to keep the departments in the dark about the whole picture. In Los Alamos, New Mexico was a compound where the research went on. When the two bombs were ready they were totally different and secretly transported under tarps so not even the handlers could see what they looked like.
Watch the documentary "Fat Man and Little Boy" to get the sense of how things were.

I hoped the yalta conference in the Atlantic solidified any plans for a counter attack against Germany.

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The reason they picked these two cities is because they were away from any other destruction from the war. It was the first time they used the atomic bomb. They wanted to see the effect of the nuke.

By the time of the Korean War, the Soviet Union had nuclear weapons and was allied with China and North Korea. Using a nuclear weapon there could have triggered a nuclear war between the US and the USSR.

Fred Korematsu sued the United States because he thought it was unlawful for the United States to order Japanese-American citizens into concentration camps. The concentration camps were instituted after the bombing of Pearl Harbor during World War II.

THE JAPANESE ATTACKED PEAR HARBOUR WITH AN AIR ASSULT USING TORPEDOS BOMBS AND MACHINE GUNS

The United States won, as Fred Korematsu was not granted his appeal and was sent to an internment camp, and none of the Japanese-American's cases were looked into. This fool has no idea what he is talking about... he was not even close to knowing what really happened with Fred Korematsu. Korematsu won this as some would say "battle" against the United States. Fred Korematsu did not have to go to the internment camp.

Germany declared war on the US after Pearl Harbour.

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The detonation is caused by bringing together a "critical mass" of radioactive material (the term "critical mass" refers to that quantity of material sufficient for a self-sustaining fission reaction).

What triggers this can vary, depending on the intended usage of the bomb itself. It may be set with a barometric or proximity fuze to detonate in the air, an impact fuze to detonate upon, well, impact, a timed fuze to detonate at a particular pre-set instant, or any of the various other types of artillery fuzes.

The hard part is holding that critical mass together long enough for it to fully fission. The warhead tends to blow apart due to prompt dispersal, causing incomplete detonation. High technology is used to form an focused, explosive, compression that will last long enough, even under the intense pressures of super prompt criticality, to make the most of the weapon.

The attack caused the United States to end its neutrality & declare war on Japan.

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Note: a few days later, after the Pearl Harbour attack, Hitler declared war on America, so bringing America officially into the European war.

What you may be referring to are Lts. Kenneth A. Taylor & George S. Welch, the only two US ARMY AIR FORCE pilots to shoot down Japanese aircraft on Dec. 7, 1941. However, there were other A.A.F. pilots that were able to sortie on that day. Richard V. Horrell WW 2 Connections.com

71,380,000 - the total population as of 1/1/1939

2,120,000 - Military deaths

580,000 - Civilian deaths due to war and repression

2,700,000 - Total deaths

3.78 - Deaths as % of 1939 population

They were completely different kinds of wars.

All the WWII adversaries had regular armies, full artillery, competent and large air forces, extremely able navies. They fought very hard in regular warfare. There were twenty, or thirty or forty times as many of them as the there were Vietnamese fighting the US a generation later.

The Vietnam War was largely a guerrilla war. There were only a few instances during the entire US involvement in the war where US units were opposed by "NVA regulars". North Vietnamese Army regular troops. And the NVA were very, very light infantry, without adequate artillery, and no direct air support. They had no navy worth mentioning. The other main opponents were irregulars, the Viet Cong, un-uniformed, hiding out among the civilians, what's called "insurgents" today in Afghanistan and Iraq. Their main weapons were booby traps, and the occasional mortar round or rocket fired into US bases. One third of Americans lost were probably killed by friendly fire, as America used a howitzer to try to swat a fly. US forces were designed to fight those of the Soviet Bloc on the plains of Europe, and were ill-suited and poorly trained for a low-intensity conflict in southeast Asia.

It is about eight square miles of volcanic rock.