Atomic Bombs | search
Click here to view Atomic Bombs news from 60+ newspapers.
Bookmark or Share- The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War IIA nuclear weapon of the "Fat Man" type, the plutonium implosion-type detonated over Nagasaki. 60 inches in diameter and 128 inches long, the weapon weighed about 10,000 pounds and had a yield approximating 21,000 tons of high explosives (Copy from U.S. National Archives, RG 77-AEC)
- The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 1945The United States bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and August 9, 1945, were the first instances of atomic bombs used against humans, killing tens of thousands of people, obliterating the cities, and contributing to the end of World War II.
- Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - HISTORYOn August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed...
- Atomic Bomb: Nuclear Bomb, Hiroshima & Nagasaki - HISTORYAn atomic bomb, codenamed "Little Boy," was dropped over Hiroshima Japan on August 6, 1945. The bomb, which detonated with an energy of around 15 kilotons of TNT, was the first nuclear...
- Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - 1945 - Nuclear MuseumOn 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 that exploded with about thirteen kilotons of force. At the time of the bombing, Hiroshima was home to 280,000-290,000 civilians as well as 43,000 soldiers.
More
