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On This Day: United States Drops Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima - 0 views

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  • On Aug. 6, 1945, U.S. war plane Enola Gay dropped “Little Boy,” a 8,900-pound atomic bomb, on Hiroshima, Japan.
  • The United States and Japan had been at war since 1941. By 1945,
  • Truman authorized the use of the atomic bomb as soon after Aug.
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  • The 8,900-pound bomb, called “Little Boy,” was to be carried in a B-29 Superfortress piloted by Col. Paul W. Tibbets,
  • At 8:15 a.m. local time, the Enola Gay dropped Little Boy onto Hiroshima. Just 43 seconds later it exploded 1,900 feet above the city.
  • It has been difficult to determine a definitive death toll. Between 70,000 and 80,000 of the more than 340,000 people in the city are believed to have been killed by the initial blast, and many more died in the following weeks and years from injuries and radiation. The official Japanese death toll, calculated a year after the explosion, is 118,661. Other estimates put the number of deaths at more than 140,000, while thousands of other victims have suffered from radiation sickness, cancer and other long-term effects.
  • Nick B on 26 Feb 14
     
    this website gives the name of the Bomb, the plane, and the pilot who flew the plane. Also it give you the death toll of the explosion.
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On This Day: Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor - 0 views

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  • “avoid a charge of ‘attack without warning,’
  • U.S. forces had not received warning by the time the first wave of Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor soon before 8 a.m. A second wave followed an hour later.
  • The American Response
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt called Dec. 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy.” Congress formally declared war on the Japanese Empire just hours later.
  • Nick B on 19 Feb 14
     
    this website gives an example of the reactions of the leaders of both nations involved in the attack and what happened.
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The Manhattan Project - 0 views

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  • Einstein's 1939 letter helped initiate the U.S. effort to build an atomic bomb, but work proceeded slowly at first. Two other findings in 1940 and 1941 demonstrated conclusively that the bomb was feasible and made building the bomb a top priority for the United States: the determination of the "critical mass" of uranium needed and the confirmation that plutonium could undergo fission and be used in a bomb. In December 1941, the government launched the Manhattan Project, the scientific and military undertaking to develop the bomb.
  • Einstein wrote to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt to warn him that the Nazis were working on a new and powerful weapon: an atomic bomb. Fellow physicist Leo Szilard urged Einstein to send the letter and helped him draft it.
  • July 1940, the U.S. Army Intelligence office denied Einstein the security clearance needed to work on the Manhattan Project. The hundreds of scientists on the project were forbidden from consulting with Einstein, because the left-leaning political activist was deemed a potential security risk.
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  • August 6, 1945 First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan
  • On August 9, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki, Japan, three days after bombing Hiroshima. By the end of 1945, an estimated 200,000 people had died in the two cities.
  • His famous equation E=mc2 explains the energy released in an atomic bomb but doesn't explain how to build one.
  • Nick B on 12 Mar 14
     
    This website talks about the product of the Manhattan project.  
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On This Day: Atomic Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki - 0 views

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    On Aug. 9, 1945, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki.
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