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Bookmark or Share- 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 an...
- The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War IIThe Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II | National Security Archive. A Collection of Primary Sources. Updated National Security Archive Posting Marks 75th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings of Japan and the End of World War II.
- World War II - Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Atomic Bombs | BritannicaOn August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb carried from Tinian Island in the Marianas in a specially equipped B-29 was dropped on Hiroshima, at the southern end of Honshu: the combined heat and blast pulverized everything in the explosion’s immediate vicinity, generated fires that burned almost 4.4 square miles completely out, and immediately killed some...
- Atomic bomb | History, Properties, Proliferation, & Factsatomic bomb, weapon with great explosive power that results from the sudden release of energy upon the splitting, or fission, of the nuclei of a heavy element such as plutonium or uranium. The properties and effects of atomic bombs. fission. Sequence of events in the fission of a uranium nucleus by a neutron.
- atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Encyclopedia Britannicaatomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, during World War II, American bombing raids on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9, 1945) that marked the first use of atomic weapons in war. Tens of thousands were killed in the initial explosions and many more would later succumb to radiation poisoning.
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