WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI
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Inexpensive
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Detailed explanation-1: -"Little Boy” was the codename for the type of atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 during WW II. The little boy was the first nuclear weapon used in warfare. It’s the enriched uranium-235 that is used to creating an explosive fission reaction in nuclear bombs.
Detailed explanation-2: -In late 1941, the American effort to design and build an atomic bomb received its code name-the Manhattan Project. At first the research was based at only a few universities-Columbia University, the University of Chicago and the University of California at Berkeley.
Detailed explanation-3: -Roughly 9, 000 nuclear weapons are hidden away in bunkers and missile siloes, stored in warehouses, at airfields and naval bases, and carried by dozens of submarines across the world.
Detailed explanation-4: -Los Alamos and other Manhattan Project Sites developed across the US in 1942 and 1943. On April 1, 1943, in a mundane task of paperwork approval that was kept secret, the United States established a research laboratory in the mountains of New Mexico.