WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Napalm bomb
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Dirty bomb
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Atomic bomb
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -This gun-type uranium bomb, nicknamed Little Boy, weighed 9, 700 pounds. The bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 AM. A B-29 dropped the bomb from 31, 000 feet.
Detailed explanation-2: -The first atomic bomb, named Little Boy, was dropped on Hiroshima from the Enola Gay, a B-29 bomber, at 8:15 AM on August 6, 1945. The second bomb, named Fat Man, was dropped on Nagasaki from the Bockscar, also a B-29 bomber, at 11:02 AM on August 9, 1945.
Detailed explanation-3: -"Little Boy” was the type of atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 during World War II, making it the first nuclear weapon used in warfare.
Detailed explanation-4: -Tsar Bomba, (Russian: “King of Bombs”), byname of RDS-220, also called Big Ivan, Soviet thermonuclear bomb that was detonated in a test over Novaya Zemlya island in the Arctic Ocean on October 30, 1961. The largest nuclear weapon ever set off, it produced the most powerful human-made explosion ever recorded.