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Vor 3 Tagen · On August 6, 1945, the US dropped the Little Boy bomb on Hiroshima, a city of 350,000 people that was an important military and industrial center. The bomb, which had a yield equivalent to 15,000 tons of TNT, detonated directly over the city, instantly killing an estimated 70,000 people and destroying nearly 90% of the city‘s buildings.
Vor 4 Tagen · Enola Gay, the B-29 heavy bomber that was used by the United States on August 6, 1945, to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time the explosive device had been used on an enemy target, and it destroyed most of the city. The aircraft was named after the mother of pilot Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr.
Vor 5 Tagen · 1.19K subscribers. Subscribed. 0. No views 1 minute ago #WWII #history #Japan. This in-depth video analyzes the harrowing decision to use atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II....
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No, it wasn’t right to drop the bomb. Japan had offered a conditional surrender in which they would keep the Emperor and they were afraid of having to surrender to the Soviet Union if the war continued. We didn’t punish the Emperor anyway. We dropped the bombs to scare the Soviet Union.
Vor einem Tag · When you look at them your eye says “bomb!” but your mind says they are just hollow shells. The bomb guts are missing. Still, you get the idea. Some match your idea of what a bomb ought to look like—Fat Boy, for example, the 9,000-pound bulbous monster which destroyed Hiroshima. The one in the Kirtland Atomic Museum is painted olive drab ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Despite many scientists' opposition to using the bomb on Japan, Compton, Fermi, and Oppenheimer believed that a test explosion would not convince Japan to surrender. At an August 6 assembly at Los Alamos, the evening of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima , Oppenheimer took to the stage and clasped his hands together "like a prize-winning boxer ...
Vor 3 Tagen · In his narrative, Zwigenberg attempts to historicize the complex ways through which Hiroshima, the city where the first ever atomic bomb was dropped, has survived in memory culture. And he does it brilliantly.
