Atomic Bomb
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission ...
Atomic bomb | History, Properties, Proliferation, & Facts | Britannica
The core of an implosion-type atomic bomb consists of a sphere or a series of concentric shells of fissionable material surrounded by a jacket ...
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Wikipedia
On August 6, a Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima. Three days later, a Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki. Over the next two to four months, the effects of the ...
The Story of the Atomic Bomb - Air Force Historical Support Division
The first atomic bomb mission: Trinity B-29 missions three weeks before Hiroshima by Darrell F. Dvorak, Air Power History Winter 2013.
Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb | Harry S. Truman
After a successful test of the weapon, Truman issued the Potsdam Declaration demanding the unconditional surrender of the Japanese government.
The Most Fearsome Sight: The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
On the morning of August 6, 1945, the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings - ICAN
The two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of people, and their effects are still being felt today.
Atomic Bomb: August 6, 1945 | Harry S. Truman
On the clear morning of August 6, the first atomic bomb, nicknamed Little Boy, was dropped on the city of Hiroshima. Leveling over 60 percent of the city.
Science Behind the Atom Bomb - Nuclear Museum
The isotopes uranium-235 and plutonium-239 were selected by the atomic scientists because they readily undergo fission. Fission occurs when a neutron strikes ...
The Atomic Bombs That Ended the Second World War
In August 1945 atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, hastening the end of the Second World War and heralding the birth of ...
Full article: The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This paper chronologically summarizes the human consequences of the atomic bombings beginning from the immediate death followed by subsequent death within ...
Atomic Diplomacy - Office of the Historian
Atomic diplomacy refers to attempts to use the threat of nuclear warfare to achieve diplomatic goals. After the first successful test of the atomic bomb in 1945 ...
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Britannica
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, during World War II, American bombing raids on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (August 6, ...
"Little Boy" Atomic Bomb - National Museum of the USAF
6, 1945. The result of the Manhattan Project, begun in June 1942, "Little Boy" was a gun-type weapon, which detonated by firing one mass of uranium down a ...
Army General and Physicist Helped Usher in the Atomic Age
No one person can be credited with producing the world's first atomic bomb but two men had outsize achievements in that effort: physicist J.
Nuclear Weapons: Who Has What at a Glance
The nuclear-weapon states (NWS) are the five states—China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States—officially recognized as possessing nuclear ...
Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - 1945 - Nuclear Museum
On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The bomb was known as “Little Boy”, a uranium gun-type bomb.
The Atomic Bomb - World War II (U.S. National Park Service)
On August 9, 1945, the US Army Air Forces dropped the plutonium-fueled Fat Man atomic bomb over Nagasaki, Japan in the second, and so far the ...
"Destroyer of Worlds": The Making of an Atomic Bomb | New Orleans
At 5:29 a.m. (MST) on July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb detonated in the New Mexican desert, releasing a level of destructive ...
5-2-1 The Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
5-2-1The Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ... The fissile material for the Hiroshima bomb was uranium-235. Inside the bomb, the enriched uranium was ...